Brackets should be able to open without having a project or file to reload

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Issue by gkaiser
Tuesday Nov 25, 2014 at 00:10 GMT
Originally opened as adobe/brackets#10009

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This is a "two-fer", and also may already exist but I was having trouble finding an existing issue if it does exist...

Anyway, Brackets seems to get really cranky when the last project it was working with cannot be found. Also, it always seems to try to load the last project it was working with.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open Brackets, notice it has loaded a "Getting Started" project that I did not ask it to open or save.
2. Find the "Getting Started" project folder and delete it (this probably isn't a great idea, seeing as how it's a directory embedded in the Brackets.app package, but someone put it there, soooooo...).
3. Open Brackets again; it notifies you that it cannot open the path it had opened last time.
4. Notice that it has now opened the (I think) parent-directory that housed the last-loaded project.

What I expect Mk I:

1. Open Brackets, notice has loaded the last-opened project.
2. I should be able to access Brackets's preferences and disable Brackets from opening whatever it had last-opened. I didn't see a setting for this on the "How to use Brackets page in the Preferences section."

What I expect Mk II:

1. Open Brackets, and if it cannot find the last project that it opened, it should just sit there waiting for me to create a new file, or to open an existing one. It should not throw an error about not being able to find the last-opened project.

This is on OSX Yosemite v10.10.1, Brackets Release 1.0 build 1.0.0-15191 (release 3f2eb90a4).
This seems to occur with our without Extensions installed.

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Comment by FezVrasta
Tuesday Nov 25, 2014 at 15:31 GMT

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completely agree, but the ideas should go on Trello I think.

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Comment by le717
Tuesday Nov 25, 2014 at 20:17 GMT

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Couple of notes here:

Brackets currently does not support working without projects. There's a future plan to support that, but at the moment a project is required.

1. Open Brackets, notice it has loaded a "Getting Started" project that I did not ask it to open or save.

The Getting Started project is as the name implies, to help you get started with using Brackets. Like a introduction message. Once you create a new project yourself, then you can click the x to close the Getting Started project.

1. Find the "Getting Started" project folder and delete it (this probably isn't a great idea, seeing as how it's a directory embedded in the Brackets.app package, but someone put it there, soooooo...).

Correct, it's not the best idea in the world. ;)

1. I should be able to access Brackets' preferences and disable Brackets from opening whatever it had last-opened.

That's not possible because again, running Brackets without a project is not supported. A project must always be open.

1. Open Brackets, and if it cannot find the last project that it opened, it should just sit there waiting for me to create a new file, or to open an existing one. It should not throw an error about not being able to find the last-opened project.

On the contrary, it should show a dialog saying it could not load the project (image the reaction if one was not shown: "Wait, what happened to all my files???"). However, once you click close it does wait for you to take action.

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Comment by doliver3
Monday Oct 01, 2018 at 03:41 GMT

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This is horrible you cannot run brackets without a project. The open project obscures the list of open files outside the project - a huge waste of space.

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Comment by formfranska
Saturday Oct 20, 2018 at 18:37 GMT

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I agree, +1

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Comment by northhurricane
Thursday Nov 21, 2019 at 08:07 GMT

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I agree, +1