my file menu is missing

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gort
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my file menu is missing

Post by gort » Fri Oct 13, 2006 10:10 pm

i think i hit something in Live 5 that made my file menu at the top "hidden", and when i upgraded to L6, its the same way. I cant find the preference to bring it back! ive tried a bunch of keyboard shortcuts also, no luck.

am i missing something?

yeah, im feelin pretty dumb right about now.
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Post by Johnisfaster » Fri Oct 13, 2006 10:52 pm

there is a little arrow somewhere on the top left of your page, it's more of a triangle than an arrow, click it.
It was as if someone shook up a 6 foot can of blood soda and suddenly popped the top.

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Post by gort » Sat Oct 14, 2006 2:29 am

thanks Johnisfaster, but thats the device browser within Live.

im talking about the OS based menu that's across the top of the screen (MAC OSX). where you access File/Save As and exporting commands... that is the menu that is missing...

please help!? this seems silly that i cant get it back :roll:
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Post by longjohns » Sat Oct 14, 2006 4:18 am

the little icon is actually at the bottom right. it's a teensy tiny little arrow in a colored box

or else try ye olde f11 key

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Re: my file menu is missing

Post by nxixcxk » Tue Jun 16, 2015 10:25 pm

Same bullshit happened to me--and my window was so fucked there wasn't that miniature arrow bottom right, so I kept pressing command/function/option etc. + f11 and this is what worked for me. . .

alt/option + f11

resized my entire screen to an appropriate size.

hope that helps : )

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Re: my file menu is missing

Post by knuckleheddd » Thu May 30, 2019 12:21 am

It’s def the little tiny thing at the bottom right of the screen — if your problem was that you couldn’t see the File menu.

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Re: my file menu is missing

Post by hypersonicbeats » Fri May 23, 2025 1:02 am

nxixcxk wrote:
Tue Jun 16, 2015 10:25 pm
Same bullshit happened to me--and my window was so fucked there wasn't that miniature arrow bottom right, so I kept pressing command/function/option etc. + f11 and this is what worked for me. . .

alt/option + f11

resized my entire screen to an appropriate size.

hope that helps : )
thanks

old thread but I found the in my Sequoia OS i need to also press fn + option + F11

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