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Old 04-17-2025, 07:19 PM   #21
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↑ ↑ ↑ ✔ — That's it exactly

In real life it's totally inconsistent, but then again it's not:

In my Books library:
  • if I tag any book with "History" I get the short menu when I tab to it and press ≡, if I change a tag on an individual book to "Nistory", I get the long menu.
  • If I change the "History" tag to "Nistory" in Manage Tags I get the long menu on all books.
  • If I tag any book with "England" I always get the long menu when I tab to it and press ≡, including books that have the misbehaving "History" tag.
  • And of course, if I backtab into any field and press ≡ I get the long menu.

It get's weirder, I don't ordinarily make use the Tags column in my Creators library - but if I Tag any Creator with any of the three values mentioned (i.e. History, Nistory, England) I get the same behaviour as I do in my Books library

In other words it appears to be dependent on actual value - irrespective of library, or column

I changed John Schember to John Shampoo, et voila — up pops the long menu.

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Changed it back to John Schember, sacre bleu — we're back to the short menu.

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This is up there with the most bizarre 'bugs' I've come across in almost 60 years of messing about with software.

After thought: I should do the download/install to a new thumb drive on someone else's machine - I did that step on my machine.

BR

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