Advanced Startup Options (Recovery)

When your settings become corrupt because you created an application or database script that causes problems, you can start IMatch in a special mode which allows you to solve these problems and recover from damage.

To start IMatch in this specific mode, hold down the Ctrl key when you choose IMatch from the Windows START menu. When you start IMatch from a shortcut on your desktop or the taskbar, press Ctrl and hold it quickly after double-clicking the shortcut.

Hold down Ctrl until you see the dialog box.

IMatch responds to this by bringing up a dialog box with several options:

The Advanced Startup Options dialog

The Advanced Startup Options dialog

Start without database

This option starts IMatch without automatically loading the last used database. This is helpful when the database has become damaged and causes IMatch to crash.

Reset Workspace

This option switches IMatch back to the default workspace and re-creates it with default settings. Use this command if the workspace has become damaged, or you only have one workspace and you need to reset it to safe defaults.

This can be required when you have arranged the panels in that workspace on multiple monitors, and the other monitors are unavailable. You cannot move the panels back to the default monitor because you cannot see them.

Reset All Settings

This option deletes all settings for the current user. This re-creates the situation when the user first started IMatch. All your custom settings will be reset to factory defaults by this command. You'll need to go through all Edit > Preferences ... dialogs afterwards to re-create your personal preferences and settings.

Disable Service Apps

If you have installed service apps which run in the background and one of these apps is causing problems, use this option. It disables all service apps for the current session, allowing you to uninstall or fix the problematic app.

Clear Processing Queues

This option empties all queues with background processing tasks like indexing files, importing metadata, face recognition or metadata write-back.
See Clear Processing Queues for more information.