Visio stencil file paths

Don't know if you know about this bug in Visio 2007:

My stencil file path is My DocumentsMy Shapes.

We frequently update our stencil files and I have always placed the old
versions in a different folder under My Shapes.

Visio 2007 will drill past the updated file with the correct name in My
Shapes to an older one in a deeper folder, i.e. My DocumentsMy ShapesOld.

The ONLY way to avoid this is to store all of my old files outside of the My
Shapes folder.

I have been using Visio all day, every day for almost eleven years (since
BM- before Microsoft), so I know it intimately and this is a new problem with
2007.

Pat Garcia
HP ProCurve Design Center

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On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 14:21:01 -0800, PatG wrote:

Don't know if you know about this bug in Visio 2007:

My stencil file path is My DocumentsMy Shapes.

We frequently update our stencil files and I have always placed the old
versions in a different folder under My Shapes.

Visio 2007 will drill past the updated file with the correct name in My
Shapes to an older one in a deeper folder, i.e. My DocumentsMy ShapesOld.

The ONLY way to avoid this is to store all of my old files outside of the My
Shapes folder.

I have been using Visio all day, every day for almost eleven years (since
BM- before Microsoft), so I know it intimately and this is a new problem with
2007.

This is certainly not new, it happens in Visio 2003. What's more, it is what should
happen, any folder under My Shapes will create a shapes category of that name.
I think the same was true of Visio 2000, any folder in the Shapes path would act in
exactly the same way.


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