Reset untitled text ## numbering

[Frank Eves]

BBEdit has recently reemerged as my favourite text editor.

My habit is to:
- hit command + n
- type and edit a little
- select all
- copy the text to another application
- delete the untitled file.

BBEdit has been autosaving my untitled files and incrementing the untitled text ## file names. How do I reset my untitled file numbers to zero?

I suspect I should be using BBEdit's Scratchpad for this type of quick editing?

Cheers, Frank

[LuKreme]

On 16 Jul 2013, at 13:59 , Frank Eves <drfra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> BBEdit has been autosaving my untitled files and incrementing the untitled text ## file names. How do I reset my untitled file numbers to zero?

Why?

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[Frank Eves]

On 2013-07-17, at 8:24 AM, LuKreme <kre...@kreme.com> wrote:

> On 16 Jul 2013, at 13:59 , Frank Eves <drfra...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> BBEdit has been autosaving my untitled files and incrementing the untitled text ## file names. How do I reset my untitled file numbers to zero?
>
> Why?

A: My 'ducks in a row,' obsessive personality, untitled text 127 doesn't look right to me. :)

Thanks for responding.

Note that I received a very helpful support response from Patrick Woolsey.

Cheers, Frank

[neuro...@gmail.com]

What was the helpful response from Patrick Woolsey?

I want to reset mine too.

[Frank Eves]

I apologize for my delay responding, I've been hospitalized.

Here's what Patrick wrote, "First, BBEdit will automatically increment
each new document's (ID) number until you quit and relaunch it, and
there's no separate option for doing so.

Next, BBEdit will by default always preserve unsaved changes across a
quit and relaunch, and this process will also preserve the titles of any
open, unsaved documents. If however you do not want BBEdit to preserve
unsaved changes, you can prevent this by turning OFF the option to
"Restore unsaved changes" in the Application prefs panel.

Last, I do suggest using BBEdit's global scratchpad instead of
individual unsaved documents for the sort of task you describe, and
please note that if you wish, you can assign a key shortcut to the
Scratchpad window via the Menus & Shortcuts prefs pane. (I've done this
myself and find it very handy.)"

[neuro...@gmail.com]

Thanks for the reply.  I'm sorry to hear you were ill.

[StBb]

In BBEdit 10.5.5 the incrementing keeps running even after quit and restart, at least for me. Not a big deal, anyway FYR here is what Patrick Woolsey answered me on this:

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This behavior is the side-effect of a change (fix) we made in BBEdit 10.5.5, and we do already have it marked for correction in a future update.

I apologize for the inconvenience, and for the meantime, if you really need to reset this count :), you can do so as follows:

 * Within BBEdit, close all open editing windows and then quit

 * Open BBEdit's preferences folder, which you can find in this location:

   /Users/USERNAME/Library/BBEdit/

 * Delete the file named "Sleep State-[bunch of alpha-numerics].appstate"

 * Launch BBEdit

and the count should now be reset.

(The reason you'll want to close all windows before deleting the '.appstate' file is because throwing it out will make BBEdit forget them anyway, but by doing so beforehand, you can control their state.)

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--stefan