RE: When migrating to new note directories...

[Richard Frenette <richardfr videotron ca>]

Please remove me from this mailing list. (This is the 3rd time I am asking that).

Thank you,
RF.

-----Original Message-----
From: gnote-list-bounces gnome org [mailto:gnote-list-bounces gnome org] On Behalf Of Aurimas Cernius
Sent: 12 octobre 2011 12:56
To: gnote-list gnome org
Subject: Re: When migrating to new note directories...

Tr, 2011 10 12 11:17 +0000, Debarshi Ray rašė:
> > Please, in future, remove the old note directory e.g., ~/.gnote.
> > Otherwise users, like myself, will find ~/.gnote and, not 
> > unreasonably, assume that is the when their precious notes are and 
> > will sync or backup that directory instead of the new one hidden in 
> > ~/.local/share/.
> > 
> > I've lost a lot of important information I will not be able to get back.
> 
> Thanks for the report.
> 
> If you still have something in ~/.gnote then you should be able to 
> copy them to the new place using cp or Nautilus. Not that it is 
> obvious or nice, but it will still work.
> 
> Sorry for loosing your data, we will see what we can do to fix this.

As I understand, the data was lost, because ~/.gnote was backed up instead of ~/.local/share/gnote.
However, when removing ~/.gnote care should be taken as it would be even worse to delete notes, when they weren't successfully migrated.

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Aurimas

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