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khanhlnq
April 20th, 2007, 09:16 PM
I just fresh-installed Feisty Fawn yesterday. I have a separate /home partition to keep my personal data.
After installed, everything works fine except I lost all my sticky notes although my profile still there.
Do you know where sticky notes store data or do you know a way to recover sticky notes data? I took notes so many important things that if I don't have sticky notes I will forget all.

qamelian
April 20th, 2007, 09:26 PM
I'm not sure why your notes aren't showing up, but the data is stored in /home/your_username/.gnome2/stickynotes_applet . The text is stored in an xml file and is easily readable, so you should be able to just open this file in gedit and copy and paste the data into new notes.

khanhlnq
April 20th, 2007, 09:36 PM
I'm not sure why your notes aren't showing up, but the data is stored in /home/your_username/.gnome2/stickynotes_applet . The text is stored in an xml file and is easily readable, so you should be able to just open this file in gedit and copy and paste the data into new notes.
Last time I want to backup my sticky notes, I tried
locate stickynotes
and I found your mentioned folder. But the funny thing is the folder was not exist but my sticky notes still show so I didn't backup (I wonder why I did not copy/paste to gedit at that time :( )
Now after installed new Ubuntu version, the folder is not exist either, my old notes are all lost, my new notes can be added.

qamelian
April 20th, 2007, 11:23 PM
The folder does exist but the dot (.) as the first character in a file or directory name makes the directory hidden. Just press ALt-F2 to get a command prompt and type in:

gedit ~/..gnome2/stickynotes_applet and press the enter key. Gedit will open and display the contents of the file.

khanhlnq
April 20th, 2007, 11:27 PM
The folder does exist but the dot (.) as the first character in a file or directory name makes the directory hidden. Just press ALt-F2 to get a command prompt and type in:

gedit ~/..gnome2/stickynotes_applet and press the enter key. Gedit will open and display the contents of the file.I found the file now, but it's the new content. My old notes was totally lost:(