"Default template"?

**Toonicorn** · 21 April 2012, 03:00 AM

Originally Posted by handrawn

Hi there TC

sounds like you have maybe lost your default files

quickest way to check is to click on 'save template' in file menu, and just look at what is already there

the attached is the default set - is your set different, if so are there some missing? - or have you created a lot more [which can cause some to 'fall off the radar']

Wow, I don't have ANY of that stuff when I open "Save Template". I just have a few bits of art I was working on. I wonder what happened???

**mwenz** · 21 April 2012, 04:04 AM

Oh, save it to the path you see here in the screen shot. You likely are saving the template to the wrong folder.

Take care, Mike

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**handrawn** · 21 April 2012, 08:41 AM

can you post a screen shot of what your 'Save Template' screen looks like ?

**Toonicorn** · 21 April 2012, 12:34 PM

Okay, here's a screenshot of my Save Template function:

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**Soquili** · 21 April 2012, 01:28 PM

It is possible you accidently clicked on the Save Template rather than the Save option some time in the recent past to save your work and browsed to a folder. This would change the path for your templates and make the actual template files unaccessable. You will need to create a basic setup file and use the Save Template option and browse to the folder shown in Mike's post. This will restore the correct path for the template files.

**Toonicorn** · 22 April 2012, 04:20 AM

Originally Posted by Soquili

It is possible you accidently clicked on the Save Template rather than the Save option some time in the recent past to save your work and browsed to a folder. This would change the path for your templates and make the actual template files unaccessable. You will need to create a basic setup file and use the Save Template option and browse to the folder shown in Mike's post. This will restore the correct path for the template files.

Thanks so much, but...newbie here...how do I do all that? I'm still very new to Xara...

**mwenz** · 22 April 2012, 05:03 AM

By doing what Bill wrote

So just make a template. Any template. Navigate to the folder structure for the templates as shown in the screen shot (Win 7, earlier Windows versions will be a little different perhaps) and save the template.

Now can you see the other templates or no?

Mike

**Toonicorn** · 23 April 2012, 03:00 AM

Well, I did manage to create a new blank page and save it as a template, and now when I open Xara, that page shows up. But I never could find that list of files or ENG anywhere...wonder why?

Maybe I should uninstall and then re-install Xara to restore those items?

**amoore** · 23 April 2012, 03:24 PM

Look at Mike's screen capture in post #7 in this thread, particularly the dropdown inset that shows the full path. The default templates folder should be in the folder in which you installed the application. In your screenshot, the folder has a different name. That's why people have suggested that you accidentally saved some of your artwork in another folder as a template.

AFAIK, the only way for the default template folder to disappear completely is that it got deleted. If it was deleted, then, yes, you will need to reinstall to get it back. Before going to all that trouble, I suggest that you take a look at your application installation folder in Windows Explorer. I think the path shown in Mike's screenshot is the default path. On your system, it's probably similar.

Allison