Hi, I booted up my computer and started up Chandler as usual this morning. When I came back to the computer, there was a long list of blank notes/tasks with only a few of my own ones scattered amongst them. When I say blank, they had dates, but no title and no body text. Then it crashed, and wanted to shut down. During the backup on shutdown, there was a further error message that it could not complete backup.
I then went to my laptop, backed up the .chex and .tgz backup files to a USB drive for safety, and tried starting Chandler. It started without error, then synced and during syncing the blank tasks started appearing, so I assume that my Hub data is now corrupt. I'm not sure if the bad data started on the desktop machine this morning and then was propogated to the hub when it synced, or if the corruption has happened in the Hub and is now spreading to all my machines. As I see it now, I need to wipe the hub data, then start up Chandler one of my machines with a known good .chex and then repopulate the hub data from that - what I don't want is for the bad data on the hub to corrupt my local data. In Chandler I can only see options for cleaning out the local data, and I don't see anything in the hub for resetting the account (only for closing it). Is there a graceful way of doing this ? Of course, the next question is what caused this - I use three machines synchronised via the hub (desktop with XP, desktop with Ubuntu 9.04 and netbook with Ubuntu 9.04 netbook remix) and have not previously had any data loss problems. As a suggestion, I think that when Chandler should rename the old .chex file (at least for one generation of files), rather than overwriting it - the present system is ineffective because when Chandler encounters data corruption, the first thing it does is close down, backing up the bad data and wiping out the old data (which was hopefully still good). Fritz
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