Context Menus Fail to Open (Version 2.3.0 (2.3.0))

I think I mentioned once before that I was having a hard time removing videos from the Virb Edit Clips area, but now it's completely impossible for me to remove any because I never get the gear on the videos any more even when I hold down "Control". I was using a Bluetooth Keyboard and that was working for the longest time, then I stopped getting the gear, so I went back to the wired Mac keyboard and I still can't ever get that gear.

I probably have 100 video clips in the library. Perhaps this has something to do with it?

"Control" is still working for the sake of copying - I was able to go to Virb/About and copy the version number from the About window.

0 Former Member over 11 years ago

I don't know what the MAC equivalent is but in windows the database sits here:
C:\Users\{USERNAME}\AppData\Roaming\Garmin\VIRB Edit\Database\2
Here you will find RawMovies that contain thumbnails of your clips and MovieProjects that contain thumbnails of your movies.
In these directories you find subdirectories with names like 4874867c-0d51-4576-a98c-4aeefeb83179 these contain the actual information (clip/movie information is stored here, not the clips themselves).
These directories also contain a XML file that tells VIRB Edit where to find what clip and what overlay to use.
You could delete both RawMovies and MovieProjects to delete the complete database.
When you only want to delete some clips and movies you could use the thumbs as a guide what clip/movie is in the directory and only delete the large-number directory.

0 geomonster over 11 years ago

Thanks for the pointers - I'll check it out asap.

0 geomonster over 11 years ago

Can't find the equivalent directories in the Mac world for those suggestions you made...

I have a question in to Garmin about this so we'll see what they have to say.

0 schinder over 11 years ago

They're in ~/Library/Application Support/Garmin/VIRB Edit, for example:

mp$ ls ~/Library/Application\ Support/Garmin/VIRB\ Edit/Database/0/Projects/
307F837E-17B0-436F-BE50-56242E4391D1 A6D0F1CB-3B15-4EF1-87BD-24EC38D8DE10
52F857DD-35EA-403F-8E5F-8D49DF127BC5 AFAA042F-3E08-4046-A28F-305EF61DEFB7
6F4B836D-EBAE-4ADE-9C2C-A0CA50BC215E CA8D934C-B81F-48BE-A274-EE93F8A3C307

(Sorry for the look, they don't seem to have a fixed width font here.)

0 geomonster over 11 years ago

Not on this Mac.

The Garmin directory has nothing pertaining to the VIRB in it, and there is not a VIRB directory to be found.

0 schinder over 11 years ago

Library in your home directory, the one that's usually (for good reason) invisible? Not /Library, ~/Library (~ is bash/csh speak for "your home directory", or the environment $HOME).

Easiest thing to do is start up Terminal (in /Applications/Utilities) and type

ls ~/Library/Application\ Support/Garmin/VIRB\ Edit

0 geomonster over 11 years ago

Hmmm, I've used Terminal ages ago, but I don't think I want to muddle my way through this. It's my problem, but it's Garmin software, so I think I'll wait to see what the official cure might be.

Thanks anyway for the help.

0 schinder over 11 years ago

OK, in Finder, select the Go menu, select "Go to Folder...", type ~/Library, drill down as usual from there. There's a setting where you can make ~/Library visible in the Finder, but I've forgotten where (it may be a "defaults write" kind of thing on the command line).

0 geomonster over 11 years ago

I was able to find the ~/Library area but there's no obvious Virb entry except in the Caches area:

I archived the top three items in the list and took them out of there, and started VE but it didn't behave any differently.

0 Former Member over 11 years ago

GEOMONSTER: please do back up your database before you do any of this deletion stuff folks are talking about. I can't think of why that'd affect your gears, but if it does, send us that zip.

The "edit" gear should show up whenever you hover over a video project thumbnail square in your video gallery. Right/control clicking on your video gives you different options from that gear and is largely unrelated to it. If you can't get the gear to show up, just clicking the "Edit" button in the movie player popup that opens up afterward should do the same thing.

Did your recently update your OS or anything else that might effect how your computer handles your mouse? The right click menu and hover behavior you're talking about shouldn't care about your database, and instead just rely on the OS handling/reporting mouse events appropriately.