Not very important, but got me wondering.

I created a shortcut to a project, put it on my desktop, kept forgetting to use it, deleted it, but it still shows up in the houdini file chooser…..

Is the link gone, still there, or is this a quirk of history in the h file chooser?

Maybe it doesn't refresh until you restart Houdini?

It's been there for about two weeks now, computer restarted many times as well as houdini, it's just weird. I use spy to hunt down viruses and malware (ocassionally!) as it's the ONLY reliable navigator that shows ALL files in ALL folders, I thought maybe it was linked to this in some way.