Extraneous copies of my Reunion 14

[mardicar]

I have 3 copies of Reunion 14 (named as Reunion 1, Reunion 2, and Reunion 3) on my computer, all sitting in the dock. They look the same to me. They are all marked as "open." How do I get rid of the extraneous ones. I have no idea how this happened. When I try to open Reunion 1 I have to choose to open "My Family File." This gives me a blank version of Reunion and I have to go up to the Mac "File" where I choose "Recents" and then finally can open Reunion. Is there a way to "fix" all this confusion? Thank you.

[Herb]

Not sure where you are located, but I'd suggest that you contact Reunion Support. They are the absolute best in the business

[Bob White]

The copies in your dock are not files. They are aliases. Drag all three out of the dock. You see a small cloud explode that means the aliases are gone.

Now go to the Applications folder. Find the Reunion 14 app. Drag that icon into the dock. The first time you open from that icon, it will have you navigate to your current file. After the first time, this icon will open the last Reunion file that was used. (Note: The problem, based on your description, was that you dragged the file icon to the dock instead of the app icon.)

[SGilbert]

Contrary to Bob's advice, only a familyfile's alias need be in the dock.
Clicking on the familyfile (You can name it/them whatever you choose) will open the Reunion app and that family file.
If you do not know where the familyfile is, search for ".familyfile14" (without the quotes)
You, also, can have the familyfile wherever you wish. Personally, mine are in the Dropbox folder, but you may want to have it/them in your Reunion folder.

[Bob White]

Contrary to Bob's advice, only a familyfile's alias need be in the dock.
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True and that works fine if one usually opens the same file. I have several family files for different unrelated families and testing/checking procedures. So, I prefer the option to choose which file quickly on the fly.

[theKiwi]

True and that works fine if one usually opens the same file. I have several family files for different unrelated families and testing/checking procedures. So, I prefer the option to choose which file quickly on the fly.

Then put multiple alias files into the Dock - one for each family file you regularly open...

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My other computer has 4 different family file icons in the Dock.

Roger

[Bob White]

Then put multiple alias files into the Dock - one for each family file you regularly open.......

Roger

Of course I could BUT I already have more than 50 icons in my dock.

[KirkS]

To each her own, but I would much rather have ONE icon in my dock and then let Reunion prompt me for which file I wish to open.

[DrJJWMac]

> Of course I could BUT I already have more than 50 icons in my dock.

One solution would be to create category folders and store aliases to the desired files in the appropriate category folder.

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