When I close Studio all my projects disappear from the Projects view and the custom project templates I added to the Setup/project templates also disappear

Question

Every time I close Studio 2022, two things happen:
- all the projects in my Projects view disappear and I have to open them manually;
- the custom project templates I created and added to Studio setup (including the default one I had chosen) disappear from the list and Studio reverts to the original Default project template.
This is the configuration: in my computer, the folder My documents automatically points to a network drive (option imposed by my work that I cannot change). Once Studio was installed, I recreated all the Studio 2022 subfolder structure on the real C drive (not syncing or pointing to a network drive). I modified the Sdl.ProjectApi.xml file to make sure that projects are created in the correct LocalDataFolder. The projects.xml file is indeed in the Projects folder in the "real C" drive since that it where I saved the first project I created. In all my custom project templates, the project location is also the Projects folder in the real C drive.
If I try to rename the projects.xml file so that Studio creates a new one when I close it and reopen it, Studio does not create a new projects.xml file.
In fact, that file has not been modified for over three weeks, which makes me think that for whatever reason Studio is not able to access it and that is what is causing both problems. I checked the properties of the file and the folder that contains it and everything seems fine regarding access rights.
Any ideas what can be causing it and what the solution might be? Having to manually open all my projects and manually select my project templates every time I reopen Studio makes me waste a lot of time.
Thanks.
Beatriz

Jerzy Czopik · Answer

Beatriz de Vega 
 If your companys policy is to use the network drive, you are most probably not allowed to put these files on C: 
 I use OneDrive for My Documents folder on my computer, thus the folder Studio 2022/... is located on the OneDrive and this does not make any trouble. This said, I do NOT locate any project files there. Only the file called projects.xml (located in ...\Studio 2022\Projects\) is there. And this is the file responsible for keeping track of your projects AND project templates. So try to use the cloud and see, if that helps.

Jesús Prieto · Answer

Beatriz de Vega , 
 Could it be that there is more than one Sdl.ProjectApi.xml file in your PC? 
 I've actually got two Sdl.ProjectApi.xml files, possibly due to old Trados Studio versions not fully uninstalled These are the paths: 
 
 C:\Users\[UserName]\AppData\Roaming\Trados\Trados Studio\Studio17\Sdl.ProjectApi.xml 
 C:\Users\[UserName]\AppData\Roaming\SDL\ProjectApi\15.1.0.0\Sdl.ProjectApi.xml 
 
 Could you search for all Sdl.ProjectApi.xml instances and confirm that you have edited the right XML, the one with the Studio17 folder?

Jerzy Czopik · Answer

Beatriz de Vega 
 Dear Bea 
 This is more a Windows than a Studio problem. As it seems, someone has produced a mess with your Libraries on your computer. You can move Windows folder like Documents to any location you wish. To do so, right click the said folder and chose "Properties" (my screenshots are in German, but this works in all languages the same way): 
 
 When you go to Path there, you can move the folder to a location of your wish: 
 
 Please check, where does your Documents folder go to. From my knowledge, Studio will always use this Document folder and create its subfolder there.

William Stein · Answer

Hi, I don't know if this applies to your situation but all my projects kept disappearing from the Projects Window and i stumbled upon this solution: 
 Click on File in the menu bar 
 Click on Project Settings Configuration on the left 
 Make sure all the Filters settings in the Projects box on the left are set to "Show all proiects" instead of "in progress" or "marked as completed". 
 I've been struggling with that problem for months and the above steps fixed it immediately. I don't know how the setting got changed in the first place, maybe I hit one of those (obnoxious and superfluous) preprogrammed keystroke combinations. 
 For the designers: BTW, I would recommend providing a minimum of such preprogrammed combinations, since users can easily program their own in Options and if you hit a combination by accident it's very hard to figure out what suddently went wrong

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When I close Studio all my projects disappear from the Projects view and the custom project templates I added to the Setup/project templates also disappear