Saved groups not reloading properly

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I have (had?) several saved groups - all chrome windows.    I closed them all after saving because I wanted to reboot.

When I tried to reload them, all I get is blank windows.     None of my saved groups will reload now - they all product blank windows.   I uninstalled/rebooted/reinstalled/reboot again ... and it still doesn't work.    BTW - there are NO chrome extensions loaded.

This is a problem ... can you help, please?

Best Regards,
   Richard

** Edit **

I just found the sticky about unloading all chrome tasks when it's closed - I set that accordingly - all chrome tasks get closed, but I still have the problem :(

groupy
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

Hello,

Sorry to hear you are having issues.

What version of Windows ( FULL ) ?

What version of Groupy ?

 


AzDude
Stardock Community Assistant

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Howdy

Windows 10 Home, version 1903 build 18362
Groupy version 1.3

** Edit **

I just looked at the saved group files ... none of them mention the actual web pages that were (supposedly) saved ... so in my mind, that means that Groupy didn't actually save anything ... not a happy customer here :(

 

The Political Machine 2024
Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

Hello

Would you Please do this PURGE: https://forums.stardock.com/488142/groupy-support-faq#reinstalling

Reboot and ReInstall the latest version from your account https://store.stardock.com/myaccount/products/

Reboot test and report back here please.

 

AzDude
Stardock Community Assistant

Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top

Hello,

I have forwarded your report to the Stardock support team for their review and recommendations.

Please keep an eye on this thread for any updates.

We really do appreciate your feedback, thanks.

AzDude
Stardock Community Assistant

Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top

Hello,

Sorry to hear you are having trouble.

You should be able to edit the target in the saved group to have it open a specific URL:

Example:
CommandLine="https://www.espn.com"

Please keep in mind, Groupy's stated use is to open up applications and cannot claim to be able to open specific URLs or documents.

In the case of Chrome, even changing the target as I indicated above, will have the URLs open in a single unique Chrome window, not the two you may have saved them as (seems this may be something new Google has done).  That may be overcome by adding Chrome specific switches to the command line to force a unique (new) window:

https://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/#load-extension

Sean Drohan
Stardock Support Manager

Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top

Hi,

I appreciate your response.   I understand your explanation, but I must say it's a bit disappointing ... these windows of mine will mostly be static, so manually setting them up will work, but in my particular case - it'll be kind of painful.   A necessary evil, I guess :)

Anyway, thanks for responding - it's muchly appreciated.

Best regards,
   Richard Brents

 

Reply #8 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting rwbrents, reply 7

Anyway, thanks for responding - it's muchly appreciated.
End of rwbrents's quote

You are most welcome.

Sean Drohan
Stardock Support Manager