Hi Mark,
In response to your questions:
“did you manage to find the Settings file?”
Yes. I tried changing the path and I tried deleting it.
“View > Windows Layouts > Default Layout ??”
Yes. I also tried moving the explorer window around, docking and undocking it in different locations.
“Have you got the very latest software? Plenty of free disk space on all relevant drives?”
Yes. I also tried rolling back to a previous build.
“Has you drive layout changed recently?”
No, it hasn’t.
“Is this a new install ?”
No, it isn’t.
“Was it all ok and then suddenly something happened? if so what was that?”
Yes, except the ‘suddenly’ took place between me using Vegas and then using it again a few weeks later, so it’s hard to pinpoint exactly what I did that may have caused it. It’s possible (if not likely) that the period between it working and not working was the period during which I upgraded to Windows 10, but I suspect that I am not the only person using Windows 10 and Vegas yet there doesn’t seem to be a general uproar about this.
“I’ve tried to reproduce the problem but had no luck so far.”
From my web searches and forum reads I have gathered that this isn’t a common problem. It’s happened to a few other people, none of which has been able to pinpoint the cause. No workable solution has been found on any of the forum threads regarding it, either.
Thanks for your efforts, though. I do appreciate it.