This may be totally random but thought I had better mention it incase it occurs to others.

I've had a couple of occasions when JAlbum just stopped working and report goes of to Microsoft. I can't remember the exact sequence of events, but I typically have quiet a few programmes running at the same time. Anyway on opening JAlbum again all my recent projects list had gone. Not too much of a problem because I can open up the project files and rebuild my list.

I just can't understand how it happened. After loading up one project I've just checked recent-projects.txt and only one project is listed. Of course I could restore recent-projects.txt from my backup disk - but it still shouldn't happen.

Is there a short cut key that delete all recent projects? Maybe I pressed that by mistake.

Using Windows 10 and Gromit skin on almost all albums.

Thank you Rob, I had seen the clear list in the menu drop down lists, but I'm fairly certain that didn't happen.

I asked about the shortcut key, because on my new keyboard the Fn (Function Key) is bottom left where the Ctrl button should be and I'm always pressing it by mistake.

I'll leave this question open for a while and see if it happens again

On rare occasions we still get reports that the recent projects list has become cleared. It's unfortunately still a mystery to me how this happens. Luckily no real data is lost. You can re-populate the list by dropping project folders onto jAlbum.

Thanks for reporting. As soon as anyone can provide steps how to reproduce this one consistently, I can also fix it.

The AppData/Roaming/JAlbum/recent-projects.txt was deleted/emptied and is now being repopulated.

See:

 C:\Users\tojoh\Documents\My Web Sites\Legs\LEGS-Misc\jalbum-setting-miscs.jap
C:\Users\tojoh\Documents\My Web Sites\Legs\LEGS-Memo\jalbum-settings-memo.jap
C:\Users\tojoh\Documents\My Web Sites\Legs\LEGS-Photo_Album\legs_Photo-Album.jap
C:\Users\tojoh\Documents\My Web Sites\Legs\LEGS-schoolpic\jalbum-schoolpic.jap

Notice that I store in 'My Web Site' folder instead of the ALBUMS folder that was introduced some time ago.

I might try putting all my album projects in there because it always seams to want to default to there.

Other than that, I've got a strange keyboard that has the Fn key where Ctrl should be and I keep pressing that in error and getting a shortcut come up when using other programs.

See Screen shot of what you asked for. 50 is well over what I need. I'm sure these are just the JAlbum default settings.

Just as a matter of interest, I looked back on my PC backup drive and this folder dated 27 Feb shows the recent files at that time. It was still not fully populated from the last time I lost my recent projects list!

The Generated Web site (output directory) always goes into a separate folder to the IMAGE directory, which contains images and the JAlbum Settings.

I think it will remain a mystery until it happens to one of the JAlbum experts.

I don't have a long list of projects so it is not a big problem for me to repopulate.

The list of recent projects is kept in your config directory in a file called, not surprisingly, recent-projects.txt. To see your config directory, from within jAlbum, choose Tools, Open directories, Config directory. If that file is deleted or damaged, that would cause the list to vanish.

There is also a menu choice within the application that will clear the list - take a look at File, Open Recent Album Project, <<Clear list >>.

In a multi-user operating system, it would also disappear if you logged into the machine with a different account, since the config directory is per-user.