Altium traps: stuck by accidentally setting search path to root...

[Byonnem]

Hi Guys,

I made a mistake... I set the library search path accidentally to the root, and hence it is scanning my entire harddisk..
It seems that I  cannot cancel it with ESC. or any other key for that matter and thus had to force it to terminate with task manager. Which luckely  only resulted 5 min of work lost.

The plus side is, the program is proofing to be very stable, it was not crashing, and I did not get a "does not response" warning from windows... (which you do get from many other programs such as the adobe suite and certain autodesk programs when a user makes the same error)

O well, I learned my lesson. But it still is very silly that one cannot cancel a running task...

Any other traps or good Altium advise for a "young player"?

M.D.S

[Pseudobyte]

Shortcuts are attached to the toolbar, do not customize the toolbar. On time i hid all the buttons because i rarely if ever use them. Doing so disabled all my hotkeys, and I was struggling to put two and two together. Here I am trying to press delete to remove a component and nothing was happening.

[sean0118]

Any other traps or good Altium advise for a "young player"?

Yes, when using the IPC footprint wizard don't enter a stupidly high number of pins to see what happens, not even for a joke.

It turns if you try to generate a 1000 pin part the wizard breaks. Also, each time you open the wizard it automatically loads in the previous values used, so it crashes again on open...   

Trust me, I';ve already tried it so no one else has too. 

[T3sl4co1l]

Shortcuts are attached to the toolbar, do not customize the toolbar. On time i hid all the buttons because i rarely if ever use them. Doing so disabled all my hotkeys, and I was struggling to put two and two together. Here I am trying to press delete to remove a component and nothing was happening.

Yeah, this threw me for a loop going from 17 to 18+...  At least there's an option (Tools/Preferences, System?, Advanced) to hide it without disabling the shortcuts.

Tim

[Byonnem]

Any other traps or good Altium advise for a "young player"?

Yes, when using the IPC footprint wizard don't enter a stupidly high number of pins to see what happens, not even for a joke.

It turns if you try to generate a 1000 pin part the wizard breaks. Also, each time you open the wizard it automatically loads in the previous values used, so it crashes again on open...   

Trust me, I';ve already tried it so no one else has too. 

hahaha. This is now really tempting, but i'll withhold myself from doing it.

Shortcuts are attached to the toolbar, do not customize the toolbar. On time i hid all the buttons because i rarely if ever use them. Doing so disabled all my hotkeys, and I was struggling to put two and two together. Here I am trying to press delete to remove a component and nothing was happening.

Yeah, this threw me for a loop going from 17 to 18+...  At least there's an option (Tools/Preferences, System?, Advanced) to hide it without disabling the shortcuts.

Tim

Thanks for the tip!

M.D.S