[ubuntu-mono] [Bug 626582] Re: Can't open transferred .notes files in Ubuntu or Windows

[Bruce Ferguson]

Thank you, Sandy! I now have recovered all (or almost all) of my notes. It's a bit more complicated than you suggest, however. What I figured out, by trial and error, is that if I start up my machine, copy files into the Tomboy folder and then run Tomboy everything works. However if I run Tomboy, close it, and then copy .note files into to the Tomboy folder during the same session, those new .note files do not appear in Tomboy. This is true in Windows 7 as well as Ubuntu 10.04.
Thanks again for your help and your work with Tomboy.

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Can't open transferred .notes files in Ubuntu or Windows
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Status in “tomboy” package in Ubuntu: New

Bug description:
Binary package hint: tomboy

I recently had to revert to Windows after a couple of years running Ubuntu. I understood that I could transfer my tomboy notes by simply backing up the the .notes files, installing Tomboy on Windows, and copying the notes files into the Windows Tomboy directory (C:\Users\<USERNAME>\AppData\Roaming\tomboy\notes). See http://www.linickx.com/archives/790/tomboy-on-windows. However, the notes do not appear when I open Tomboy, nor do they open when I double click them.

I tried to get around the problem by installing Ubuntu 10.04 in Vbox, but the same thing happens there (Tomboy does not recognize notes I paste into /home/bruce/.local/share/tomboy).

I was able to recover text of a couple of key notes using Firefox, but that is clumsy and tedious.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

Tomboy 1.2.1 (Ubuntu), 1.2.2 (Windows)
Ubuntu 10.04 in Windows 7 Virtual Box