deleted ATGs keep coming back?

I made some ATGs that I no longer want.

I can delete them, and they no longer show up as available targets during that ISBoxer session.

I click the FILE button, and SAVE.
I also EXPORT TO ALL COMPUTERS.

Everything looks fine.

But if I close ISBoxer, and then restart it, those deleted ATGs are back.

Where are they coming from?

Obviously I am missing something basic. But other changes that I make seem to stick. I can delete mapped keys, and they stay gone. The ATGs do not stay deleted.

What am I missing?

[bob]

If you are deleting the ATG from the Action Target Groups node, then they should stay deleted, especially if you use File -> Save. The only reason I could think they would not stay deleted is if you were reloading an unsaved profile.

Ok. Figured it out. I think this is a bug.

The problem is that deleting an ATG does not remove it from the characters that are already in it.
It just takes it out of the ATG node, making it unavailable for new target assignments.

Then, when ISBoxer re-loads the profile, it re-adds the action group that it finds named on the characters.

[firescue17]

This same thing happens with all Targets, not just ATGs. I don't know if it's a bug or not, I've grown to find it useful in locating outdated Target selections.

Once a new Target is selected, the old ATG (or other Target) will not show up in the dropdown picker any longer.

This same thing happens with all Targets, not just ATGs. I don't know if it's a bug or not, I've grown to find it useful in locating outdated Target selections.

Once a new Target is selected, the old ATG (or other Target) will not show up in the dropdown picker any longer.

Not sure I understand. What kind of targets other than ATGs are you talking about?

In any case, these ATGs were not being USED as targets at all.

There were characters who were marked as members of the ATGs, but nothing was targeting them.

I guess once you know that popping back after being deleted means they are still used somewhere, it does serve as notice of those remaining uses.

And if the use is as a target, further action is required on your part to re-direct the action to a valid target, so it is probably good to flag this somehow.

But it seems to me that deleting an ATG should quietly remove it from characters that are members. This isn't the same as being a target for an action: you can add characters to many ATGs, and selecting the new membership does not remove other memberships. Selecting a new target for an action does remove the old target, since there can only be one.

Not a big deal, once you know about it. Just a nuisance to have to go manually through 31 characters to remove them from ATGs that no longer exist because you deleted them.

[bob]

If you select an ATG in the top left, and then select the first character in it in the bottom left, then press DEL, that character is removed. You'd have to press DEL 31 times to remove them all, but faster than going through via the character nodes.

Ah. Right, thanks.