[ubuntu-mono] [Bug 580333] Re: tomboy notes disappeared

[Mossroy]

Sandy, Mike, Owen, I just experienced the same loss of tomboy notes as you described.
My filesystem is in ext4 format, I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 64bit with all current updates.
The notes disappeared just after a system crash (everything frozen).

Usually, if my system crashes or is shut down violently, the notes that where open on my desktop do not re-open automatically... but I can find them in the tomboy drop-down list.
This time, I could not find those notes any more in this list.
I looked at the content of ~/.local/share/tomboy : the note files are still there, but with a zero byte length.

I made a manual e2fsck on the system (from a liveCD) : it did report any error to me, and my /lost+found folder is empty.
I seems like I had 4 open notes (based on the number of zero-length note files I have)

That's really annoying to have a loss of data of this kind! I could find
some external backups of 3 of these files, but I lost everything I did
in between, of course.

Sandy, if there is a more specific bug on that issue (either on
launchpad or elsewhere), maybe you could tell us where.

Let me know if I might help in any way.

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Title:
  tomboy notes disappeared

Status in “tomboy” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: tomboy

  andyh at dylan:~$ lsb_release -rd
  Description:	Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
  Release:	10.04

  andyh at dylan:~$ aptitude show tomboy
  Package: tomboy
  State: installed
  Automatically installed: no
  Version: 1.2.1-0ubuntu1

  Hi. I recently upgraded to Lucid beta on my laptop from karmic. Things
  seemed ok. Today I noticed that all but two (which may be new) of my
  tomboy notes have disappeared. There's still a stack in .tomboy but
  only two in .local/share/tomboy. This makes me very sad :-(

  I suspect that tomboy may not be the culprit, and the culprit may be
  ubuntu-one which I've struggled to get going (without much success).

  I doubt there's anything you can do to help me (unless there's a super
  secret place where tomboy notes are copied to) but I felt I should
  file an issue just incase there's something you can do for others.

  Possibly related after upgrade/ubuntu one usage all of my podcasts
  disappeared from rhythmbox and I had to resubscribe. No idea if the
  two things are related.

  I've been using Ubuntu since warty days and this is the first time an
  upgrade has resulted in data loss!

  Thanks Andy Hird