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Topic #105: Getting rid of Saved Versions of Unpublished Puzzles [ARCHIVED]
By Deana L (FFsWife)

#1: Deana L (FFsWife) on Jun 6, 2008

I have a VERY long list of partially finished puzzles, and I started looking thru them this morning (bad Deana... hogging all the memory!) and noticed I have several that have been unpublished since I started them... How do I get rid of them?
#2: Arduinna (arduinna) on Jun 6, 2008
If you click on rate puzzle, you should be able to mark them as completed.
#3: Deana L (FFsWife) on Jun 6, 2008
Nope, I get a 404 error... Tried that! :)
#4: Jen (lightvader) on Jun 6, 2008
Do you get to the screen that says load partial solution, restart with blank grid or erase and return to main menu? Although I guess if you did get there you would have been able to figure out how to get rid of it.
#5: Gypso (Gypso) on Jun 6, 2008
What Jen said Deana. Click on the you want to erase in "your saved puzzle" list. You'll get 3 options:

"You have previously saved a partial solution for puzzle # (fill in the blank)

Would you like to:

Load your previous solution, or
Restart with a blank grid, or
Erase your saved puzzle and return to the main menu."

Hope this helps. :)

Choose "Erase" and it will remove that puzzle from your list AND return you to the main menu. You'll have to erase them from your list one at a time.
#6: Deana L (FFsWife) on Jun 7, 2008
Did that too. It's still on my list (I think, I haven't looked yet this morning).
#7: Deana L (FFsWife) on Jun 7, 2008
Well,I went and looked, and it's gone this morning! Thanks all!
#8: Deana L (FFsWife) on Jun 7, 2008
Aaarg!! Nope! It's still there! Jan! Help. It's puzzle #1455.
#9: Gypso (Gypso) on Jun 9, 2008
This is kinda odd Deana, but I went looking for puzzle #1455 and I cannot find it. The search reads: "None Found".
Maybe this puzzle has been deleted? I have no idea why that would make it impossible for you to delete however.
Just thought that I would share this information with you. :)
#10: Jan Wolter (jan) on Jun 10, 2008
The puzzle is unpublished, not deleted. It was briefly published so FFsWife is one of four users who have a saved solution for it. You can't normally "find" unpublished puzzles.

If you have a saved solution it does hang around because some folks want to finish them themselves. You should be able to get rid of it via either of the two procedures described above: marking it completed, or deleting you saved solution.

I've fixed the "marking it complete" code, so you should no longer get an error on that. You can't rate unpublished puzzles, and the code that blocked that was buggy and was crashing instead of letting you mark the unpublished puzzle complete.

I can't find a bug in the "erase your saved puzzle and return to the main menu" option. Seems to work for me.

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