Toad 11 - Tabs in Editor gives "List index out of bounds (-1)" error

Toad for Oracle
21

Hi,

With version 11 I have the same issue, I have a common app data folder with the previous versions.
Is there any solution for this?

Thx,
Attila

22

I had worked with another individual offline and the cause of their problem was
installing Toad over an existing installation. Did you do this? If so I’d
recommend uninstalling it and reinstalling it into a fresh directory. The root
cause is the rule sets used by Code Analysis (CA) were the old sets and not the
new ones compatible with the new CA. You can confirm by closing Toad, navigating
to your appdata directory and renaming the RuleSets folder. Now start Toad and
see if the problem is still there. Even if this resolves the issue I’d still
question the state and stability of your installation and would perform the
reinstall. At the initial prompt to migrate user files I would choose to not do
so from your botched installation and start it off as a fresh installation. You
can locate your appdata folder by looking in View|Options|General|“Application
data directory”

Michael

23

To be honest, I glossed over this statement " I have a common app data folder
with the previous versions." Sounds like you are in the same boat as the other
user referenced in my earlier email. Those comments apply.

24

Thanks for the explanation.
Usually I install the new toad versions separately and not upgrading them to see if I’m happy with the new version first, therefore I created the common app data folder to avoid the time consuming setups for the newly installed instance.

Now the common app data works with the new version.

Thanks,
Attila

25

That’s a bad idea. You can’t have two major versions of the same product sharing
the same app data folder. As features are introduced, redesigned, improved, etc.
the format of files in the appdata folder may change even if the filenames are
the same. This is very problematic. When you decide to fully go onto the new
version you should do this. Close Toad, delete entirely the appdata folder for
the new version, start the new version, and choose to migrate the user files
from a previous installation, but your appdata files are currently compromised
so I’d not perform these steps and migrate from them. If it were me I’d start
fresh.

Michael

26

Thanks, I will follow this in the future