My perspectives won't open in a new window

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#1

I have several perspectives set to open in a new window. But they don’t. I’m running OF 2.1.2 and OS 10.10.3 on a MacBook Pro.

Wondering if it’s just me (in which case, any idea how to fix it?) or if others are experiencing this problem.

I can create a plain old new window from both the keyboard shortcut and the menu command, so that function works. It just doesn’t get triggered when I open the perspectives. Also: Is the Option-Click method dead in OF 2? That used to be the fastest, easiest way to get this to happen. Doesn’t work either.

Thanks for any help.

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#2

I am running OF 2.1.2 and OS 10.10.3 and I am not seeing the behaviors that you are seeing. Perspectives that I have set to open in a new window do and option clicking a perspective in the menu bar opens a new window. Option clicking on the sidebar does not open a new window. Not sure how to fix this but it seems that your OF preference file is corrupted.

#3

I trashed all the files in my User Library > Preferences folder that started with com.omnigroup.OmniFocus…

Restarted my computer, relaunched OF2 and got the same result. Are there files someplace else I missed?

#4

The existence of files in Library > Preferences is an implementation detail of the operating system, and is subject to change. In fact, that’s not where preferences live for sandboxed applications like OmniFocus 2.

#5

Okay, KyleS, I’ll bite. Where DO they live? And (since you’re a former Omni staffer) is that the correct approach to fixing this problem?

#6

The defaults Terminal command will help you interact with preferences.

defaults delete com.omnigroup.OmniFocus2 will delete all your OmniFocus 2 preferences.

#7

I’m getting the same problem. Did you solve the problem, Josh?

#8

The problem turns out not to be a real one. Perspectives only open in new windows under certain circumstances, from certain places in the UI. Option-clicking on the left side tab doesn’t work. But opening it from the menu does.

#9

Oh ok. I see what you mean. Thanks.

#10

“The problem turns out not to be a real one. Perspectives only open in new windows under certain circumstances, from certain places in the UI.”
This seems like a real problem to me! Thanks for raising it and posting how to work around it. (They should fix it too!)

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#11

Is this issue still outstanding?

I just sent my vote to omnifocus@omnigroup.com, just in case it still is:

After switching from OF1 to OF2, I miss a lot the Alt(Option)-Click on perspective icon in sidebar to open it in a new window.

From this thread, looks like the issue was still there as of Dec 2015: My perspectives won't open in a new window

If it’s still outstanding, please add my vote to resolving it.

#12

Hmm, the support just replied that I’m actually the first person ever who emailed for Opption-click to open perspective in a new window.

So if anyone still interested, please send them an email asking for just that. Feel free to re-use my text from above comment if it can help.

#13

I’m experiencing the same problem, new window won’t open :( - Any solution to this?