Visio Default Start-up Page

[ATITAGAIN]

When you first launch Visio, a new blank page comes up with a stencil segment
to the left. Somehow, it is bringing back a populated page with a preliminary
drawing I was working on. It comes up as Drawing1.vsd. I have closed down
Vision and searched for Drawing1.vsd on my harddrive and it does not exist.
Where and what is causing this to bring back this old drawing? How do I get
rid of it?

 

[Paul Herber]

When you first launch Visio, a new blank page comes up with a stencil segment
to the left. Somehow, it is bringing back a populated page with a preliminary
drawing I was working on. It comes up as Drawing1.vsd. I have closed down
Vision and searched for Drawing1.vsd on my harddrive and it does not exist.
Where and what is causing this to bring back this old drawing? How do I get
rid of it?

It could be that your shortcut to Visio has been corrupted by having a
target file added to it. Check the shortcut properties (right-click on
it, or similar with the Start -> programs menu) and check that the
target file is just plain Visio and not your drawing.
If in doubt recreate the shortcut.

 

[ATITAGAIN]

This did not work. I have removed and reinstalled Visio twice now. I went to
the Programs Folder, found the Visio.exe file and created a shortcut from
there. The default drawing still comes up with the same populated drawing.

 

[Paul Herber]

This did not work. I have removed and reinstalled Visio twice now. I went to
the Programs Folder, found the Visio.exe file and created a shortcut from
there. The default drawing still comes up with the same populated drawing.

menu View -> Drawing Explorer
the window caption will tell you the path to the file.

 

[ATITAGAIN]

Sorry, there is no window caption with any path indication to a file.

 

[Paul Herber]

Sorry, there is no window caption with any path indication to a file.

Create a screen dump showing the open document with the Drawing
explorer window.
Email it to me if you like
paul
at
pherber
dot
com

 

[ATITAGAIN]

I have also searched my hard drive (all files and folders) for Drawing1.vsd.
It does not exist. When Visio launches it is pulling this information from
somewhere to populate the default Drawing1.vsd.

I will try to do as you suggest and get a file dump. But I think there must
be a file other than a .vsd file that is holding this data, e.g. .dll file or
something.

 

[Paul Herber]

menu File -> Properties
Does the General tab show any useful information?

 

[Jeff]

I was having the same problem. This blog article provided the fix for me:

http://blogs.msdn.com/visio/archive/2008/03/18/extra-drawings-opening-on-visio-launch.aspx

 

[Paul Herber]

I was having the same problem. This blog article provided the fix for me:

http://blogs.msdn.com/visio/archive/2008/03/18/extra-drawings-opening-on-visio-launch.aspx

(i've taken the liberty of posting the text in case the blog
disappears. The MSDN blog that points to the above blog has gone ...)

Extra drawings opening on Visio launch

This situation has come up frequently enough in the newsgroups that
the solution should be widely circulated:

When Visio crashes, it will often restart and recover the document you
were working on. This is generally quite helpful, but sometimes Visio
doesn't know when to stop. Sometimes Visio will continue to recover
that document and show it to you every time you launch Visio. This can
be frustrating, but there is a solution.

Close Visio. Then look in the folder "%userprofile%\Local
Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Visio" using Windows Explorer.
Some of the folders in the path are hidden, but you can usually paste
the path found between the quotation marks directly into the address
bar and press Enter. Now find the file autorecover.ini and delete it.
The recovered documents should stop reappearing when Visio is
launched.

 

[Jake]

Just wanted to add my thanks for this solution, it has been driving me crazy.

 

[Carla Franke]

Hi, I have attempted the solution. Our company locks down most windows settings and hides a lot of stuff. I pasted the file path into Windows explorer, but got an error message. I closed Visio, reset all settings in the registry and rebooted the computer and still it opens the autorecovered document. I am running Visio 2007 on Windows xp. This is literally driving me completely insane. I've been struggling for more than 2 hrs to get the getting started pane to open, and no recovered documents. I've deleted all data sources, folders, etc. I don't know what else to do. Help!

 

[Paul Herber]

Hi, I have attempted the solution. Our company locks down most windows settings and hides a lot of stuff. I pasted the file path into Windows explorer, but got an error message. I closed Visio, reset all settings in the registry and rebooted the computer and still it opens the autorecovered document. I am running Visio 2007 on Windows xp. This is literally driving me completely insane. I've been struggling for more than 2 hrs to get the getting started pane to open, and no recovered documents. I've deleted all data sources, folders, etc. I don't know what else to do. Help!

These newsgroups are no longer in use and it is unlikely that you will get an answer here.
There are replacement forums for Visio, Microsoft's own:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/visiogeneral/threads

http://social.answers.microsoft.com...types,mf:a094743e-91c5-4bb1-a29f-87fdc36790ce

or Visio MVP VisioGuy
http://www.visguy.com/vgforum/

 

[Michael Fuhrman]

For those that on using Vista, the location for the file you need to delete is located in a different location. You will find it in the following location. I suggest you play things safe and rename it such as placing a letter 'z' as the first character in the file name. I did this and my problem disappeared.

C:\Users\fuhrmami\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Visio\AutoRecover11.ini

I struggled with this same issue until I found this thread.

Someone who uses Window 7 may have a different solution. I am not sure if Microsoft changed things between vista and 7.

Good Luck!

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