Saved Project does not work as Needed or Expected

[Bruce Meeks]

Have a previous bug report on this behavior. But this is a report with a different setup to replicate with clarity and confirm this issue.

Totally new install of Ubuntu 11.10 amd 64 desktop .Installed from CD from download from Ubuntu web site.
Allowed updates during install. All those were completed with no errors.
This would be the normal path that new users to Ubuntu and Open Shot most likely would pursue.

Previous bug reported was with Unbuntu 11.10 amd 64 SERVER.

Installed Open Shot from Ubuntu Software Center.

Did a reboot

Ran openshot did 2 minutes and thrity seconds of editting from 10 imported video "clips". Did save of default project as a name and then did a save AS project and named it.

Closed openshot and re-opened it. When opening either of the saved projects NO imported files from the project are listed for EITHER project.

Other bug reports and other WWW discussions speak of Unity being an issue for simliar issues. That we should use GNOME desktop.

I would like this to work without a great deal of jumping thru hoops.

I did this as barebones as possible so we can as a community relsolve this. Willing to provide what ever is needed for this to be troubleshoot and RESOLVED as quickly as possilbe.

End-users will walk away from this product if they cannot come back on the computer re-open a project and have to redo all the work they THOUGHT was saved as a project.

All the files reside on the same hard drive as the operating system.

[Andy Finch (fincha)]

Hi,

Did you use the Recent Projects menu to reopen the saved projects?

[Jonathan Thomas (jonoomph)]

Also, can you run OpenShot from the terminal ($ openshot), and copy / paste the output when you try and open your existing project? We are trying to determine if OpenShot receives the "open project" signal, or if GTK or Unity is never giving us that signal.

Also, please try and open your project using File -> Open Project, as well as File -> Recent Projects.

Thanks!
-Jonathan

[Jonathan Thomas (jonoomph)]

Bruce, this bug looks to be a duplicate of a more general, and very bad GTK bug. I have marked this bug as a duplicate. Seems like the GTK recently openend items menu always defaults to the 1st item, regardless of what you click on. We'll have to wait on that bug being fixed upstream. Thanks!