Hi. I'm new to using the Arduino and IDE. I did a few experiments and downloaded some sketches as 'New Sketch'. They just keep piling up in the side pane and i just cant get rid of them. I even uninstalled the IDE and did a new install, but the list never dissapeared.
Can somone please help. I couldnt find a solution when i went through the forum discussions on such problems.Thanks.
This is a screenshot of my problem.
Welcome to the forum
Is the problem is that you have sketches in your sketchbook folder that you want to delete ?
Thanks for the response. No, I dont want to delete the sketches, I just want to delete them from the list so that i can start a new sketch without being bothered about the growing list.
I do not know which list you are referring to. What do you have to do to show the list ?
Can you please post a screenshot showing the list ?
Does the Sketchbook pane close when you click on its icon ?
Yes it does.
So, is your problem solved ?
@aamirsamis the "Sketchbook" view always shows all the sketches you have saved in the sketchbook folder.
If you don't want a sketch to show in the Sketchbook view then you must either move it out of the sketchbook folder or else delete the sketch if you don't have any more use for it.
If you hover the mouse pointer over any of the items in the Sketchbook view, you will see a ●●● icon appear to the right of it. If you click on that and then select "Open Folder" from the menu, it will open the sketch folder in your file browser. You can then easily remove that folder from the sketchbook folder.
No. They are just pushed to the side and the moment i want to create a new sketch, the list reappears. I even deleted to folders in the Arduino folder - no success. They are like a bug, because an unistall and a reinstall also didnt help, although I installed the Arduino IDEin another folder on the C drive. I need to clean the list, so that when I create a new sketch, only that shows in the Sketchbook pane.
How could that happen when the Sketchbook holds all of your sketches that have been saved there ?
If you want to open a new sketch without seeing the list then close the Sketchbook pane and use File/New from the menu or Ctrl and N from the keyboard
Only one of the sketches was deleted in your advised method. The rest dont even show the three dots on their right side when i highlight them. I'm going to upload an updated screen shot below.
Did you remove the others from the sketchbook folder?
That is because they are regular folders, not sketches. If you click the ❯ icon on the left side of the folder, it will expand and you can see any sketches that are present under the folder.
But it is not actually necessary to access the ●●● icon for each of the sketches. That was only a convenient way for you to get the sketchbook folder open in your file browser. Now that you have that open in your file browser, you can simply remove any folders and sketches you don't want from the folder.
In the future, make sure to only save sketches you wish to see in the Sketchbook view under the sketchbook folder. If you don't want a sketch to show there, simply save it to some other location on your hard drive.
This is the expected result. Your sketchbook folder is in a separate location from your Arduino IDE installation. When you uninstall Arduino IDE, it removes the Arduino IDE application files from your computer, but it doesn't remove your sketches from the sketchbook folder. This is actually a good thing because you might have very important sketches in your sketchbook folder that you would not want to lose just because you decided to uninstall Arduino IDE.
As, I was just experimenting and learning, i really dont have much use for them. So, I'm going to delete the sketches from the Arduino folder and do a restart and see what happens. Give me a few minutes and I'll get back to you.
Thanks again for your help. Much appreciated.
Thanks guys. That did the job. I deleted the sketch folders and my IDE is as good as new.
I didnt delete the default sketch of LED Blink. If I do that, will the IDE open with an empty Sketch folder?
Thanks to all of you for helping me.
Solution foound and topic closed.
The IDE example sketches are not held in the Sketchbook folder so feel free to delete everything from the Sketchbook folder if you want to
The IDE opens with the sketch that was last saved before it was closed. If you have deleted that sketch it should open a skeleton sketch which looks like BareMinimum example but is not actually that sketch
If you want to you can change the new sketch that opens to suit yourself
You are welcome. I'm glad if I was able to be of assistance.
Regards,
Per
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