Fences 2 Beta Bug Reporting
Wednesday, September 5, 2012 by Island Dog | Discussion: Stardock Support General
Fences 2.0 is currently in beta and available for Object Desktop subscribers and those who have purchased Fences in the last 90 days. You can download the beta from here.
If you have any issues you need to report, please use this thread and provide as much information as possible. What OS are you using? What Fences version? Providing a screenshot if possible is also helpful.
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Reply #62 Sunday, October 14, 2012 6:51 PM
I found some annoying bugs. They are in the final of fences 2 I now use.
I just changed my wallpaper. Then whenever I changed between pages, the old wallpaper where displayed (only while changing). Once all fences has been hidden or unhidden, the problem is gone (until I change my wallpaper again).
if aero is not running after a fresh boot up/restart, it could happen that all your icons, from normal fences, get thrown out right onto your desktop. May only occours if portals are in use, since portals need aero to work proberly. Due to a problem with wb, it occasionally happens to me (only once after a skin change).
Reply #64 Friday, October 19, 2012 10:23 AM
I'm having problems with new shortcuts and Fences2.
If I right click a program in all programs, and choose send to desktop, create shortcut, it shows in the desktop folder, but not ON the desktop.
Reply #65 Friday, October 19, 2012 12:03 PM
If I right click a program in all programs, and choose send to desktop, create shortcut, it shows in the desktop folder, but not ON the desktop.
Reply #66 Friday, October 19, 2012 1:06 PM
No. I tried. So I'm back to Fences Pro for now. Fences 2 is causing way too many problems for now.
Reply #67 Tuesday, October 23, 2012 2:55 PM
Quoting Zubaz, reply 48This is really intended behaviour: If a shortcut doesn't exist, don't show it.
Try loading the last snapshot after you mount the drive. That should restore the shortcuts.
Drive mounted, shortcuts created and fenced. Snapshot taken, drive dismounted, right-click desktop and Refresh - shortcuts disappear from fence. Re-mounted drive, restored snapshot, shortcuts remain gone even after right-clicking and choosing Refresh on desktop. Edit: they appear to have moved to my "Unsorted" fence, where I put all new icons by default on the desktop.
I would revisit why you chose to hide/move shortcuts that point to a volume not accessible or visible. That includes encrypted volumes, hot-swap drives like USB sticks, etc. Requiring someone restore a snapshot to restore hidden shortcuts is too tedious, in my opinion. They may have made/changed other fences since the last automated daily, and this would cause no end of trouble when it reverted.
As a fences user, I would simply like to see shortcuts remain where they are, and utilize default Windows behavior for shortcuts. If their drive isn't accessible, they simply timeout. If you'd like custom behavior, you could dim their icon or make it slightly transparent to indicate the file they point to isn't available.
Note: this problem persists in Fences 2.0. Icons that are continually re-created are eventually (and seemingly randomly) deleted from their assigned fence. On one occasion they were moved to the default fence for new icons. All other times they have been forcibly removed (an actual delete of a file by Fences 2.0).
It worries me that Fences would be removing icons permanently from any fence. I have folders that I occasionally drop into fences for temporary storage, that have actual data on them. How can I trust Fences if it is deleting files elsewhere?
Might have to do what others seem to be doing - revert to Fences Pro until 2.0 is reliable.
Reply #68 Tuesday, October 23, 2012 7:24 PM
Note: this problem persists in Fences 2.0. Icons that are continually re-created are eventually (and seemingly randomly) deleted from their assigned fence. On one occasion they were moved to the default fence for new icons. All other times they have been forcibly removed (an actual delete of a file by Fences 2.0).
It worries me that Fences would be removing icons permanently from any fence. I have folders that I occasionally drop into fences for temporary storage, that have actual data on them. How can I trust Fences if it is deleting files elsewhere?
Might have to do what others seem to be doing - revert to Fences Pro until 2.0 is reliable.
Reply #69 Sunday, October 28, 2012 7:18 AM
ONe of the most annoying and long standing bugs I have with fences is that it will remove any icon from its fence if I have fences hidden (double clicked desktop) when I right click it. This does not happen if I use the "context menu" keyboard key for the same command.
it is quite an annoying bug. I usually have to double-click my desktop and unhide anything before I dare to right-click any desktop icon.
I wish they had fixed it in version 2!
Axel
PS: I also have the "exclude this icon from quick-hide" menu missing on some icons, but that one is new to Fences 2.
Reply #70 Saturday, November 24, 2012 4:06 PM
Quoting Jaga Telesin, reply 67
Note: this problem persists in Fences 2.0. Icons that are continually re-created are eventually (and seemingly randomly) deleted from their assigned fence. On one occasion they were moved to the default fence for new icons. All other times they have been forcibly removed (an actual delete of a file by Fences 2.0).
It worries me that Fences would be removing icons permanently from any fence. I have folders that I occasionally drop into fences for temporary storage, that have actual data on them. How can I trust Fences if it is deleting files elsewhere?
Might have to do what others seem to be doing - revert to Fences Pro until 2.0 is reliable.contact support@stardock.com sovwe can see what is going on
Just keeping this alive and from fading away permanently - the bug still persists, and the ticket that was opened a month ago remains unresolved. It is an impediment on using Fences with removable or encrypted drives.
Reply #71 Friday, December 7, 2012 6:42 AM
Hi,
I just install fences 2 (downloaded today)
when i right click on a portal folder fence, i can't get the different views options (details,etc)
..but i got two time " Sort By" ..
I'm using Windows 8 64bit (just installed it).
i already try to uninstall reboot, and reinstall fences .
thantks for your help
Reply #72 Friday, December 28, 2012 5:50 PM
I Wanted to report a Bug within the current Version of Fences 2.01. I'm also using TrueCrypt to encrypt a data drive which i manually mount after system startup. Fences has been installed on the (unencrypted) system drive while the data drive was mounted. When booting the system, the Windows Explorer keeps crashing until Fences stops auto-loading at Explorer startup. When trying to manually start Fences, the same thing happens. The problem gets solved when i mount my drive and manually start Fences. Please note that currently i have no folder-portal pointing to a folder on the encrypted data-drive. At max i got some shortcuts which point to that drive in "normal" fences boxes.
Please note that for testing i tried the following:
- mount data drive
- start fences
- unmount data drive
- delete all fences snapshots
- create a new fences snapshot with no data drive mounted
- reboot
Anyway: the error still occurs.
Oh: I'm running on Windows 7 x64 Pro with latest Updates and Service Packs installed. No other Desktop / GUI modification that i would know of is installed.
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Reply #61 Sunday, October 14, 2012 5:45 PM
When running a game for which I have checked 'Disable visual themes' in properties page because of performance issues with visual themes under Windows 7 (64-bit), Fences keeps popping up error messages about Aero not being enabled and folder portals not being available.