4 Replies Latest reply: Sep 18, 2013 6:33 AM by Belief Sports RSS

    FHmx toolbar missing

    bridie123 Community Member
      We do not have access to the main toolbar on our Mac Intel 10.4.10 based machine for Freehand 11.0.2. Our other machine is a generic Mac and does not have this problem. We have tried the fixits listed for 'missing toolbar' but that doesn't appear to work. Any clues anyone?
        • 1. Re: FHmx toolbar missing
          DennisFukai
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          I have this same prob w/ a windows version of FH-MX.

          I saw Judy's posts referencing this technote < http://www.adobe.com/go/tn_13188> but it doesno't bring back my Main Toolbar -- or regen or change anythg.

          Its not critical to using FH, but if someone does thk of an answer to Bridie123's Q, I too would be interestd.
          Thanks

          /Dennis
          • 2. Re: FHmx toolbar missing
            DebElison

            Got my answer... it worked!

            just search for the file toolbar using spotlight.

            make sure that freehand is closed, then trash that file. (app - freehand - english - settings - toolbar) delete it from the trash.
            relaunch freehand and your toolbars will be there

            • 3. Re: FHmx toolbar missing
              HarryHydrocarbon

              Just loaded FreehandMX successfully on Wondows 8 as its still a far better programme than the others for what I use it...but as is clearly a problem, the Main Menu dissapears offscreen. Did all the toolbar preference file deletion in the users sudirectory recommended at http://www.adobe.com/go/tn_13188> but failed to resolve the problem.

               

              In the end I resolved it by simply copying across the two old preference files from a back up on a PC which had not been subject to the menus offscreen problem and hey presto! Problem Solved. I now have these backed up for future use.

               

              The two files concerned are the 'fhpref.txt' and 'tools.set' files in the Users Windows Macromedia/Freehand subdirectory.

              • 4. Re: FHmx toolbar missing
                Belief Sports

                Could you please explain this a little more. When I launch freehand mx in Win 8 the toolbars are not present. Also when I change the swatch it burns a little swatch box on my desktop and will only disapear when I close freehand.