2009/9/21 Graham Perrin <[email protected]> > > > Fritz Meissner wrote: > > > > what I don't want is for the bad data on the hub to corrupt my local > data. > > > > Avoidance can be tricky, mostly because restoration from backup.chex > Chandler Desktop is followed by sync with the Hub, and if the Hub is wrong > you may lose what you restored. > > I should probably point you to: > > 1. <https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12636#c0> > concerning > the undesirable sync with Hub > > 2. <http://n2.nabble.com/-tp2184993p2210390.html> concerning the steps > that > I took in a comparable situation. > > Hope that helps, > Graham > > For the record, I managed to recover the situation as follows :
1. Copied an uncorrupted backup.chex file off one of my other computers (fortunately the most recent one was not on the machine where I first discovered the problem - that backup file was corrupt). 2. Logged in to the hub and looked for the corrupted data, which turned out to be all in one collection. I started deleting the bad notes one by one, but eventually found that some of them couldn't be deleted. I then deleted the whole collection from the hub. 3. Then opened up my Chandler client holding the ctrl key to get the options menu, selected option 6 to clear my data and reload, and reloaded from the copy of the good backup.chex file. 4. To recreate the deleted collection on the hub, I had to unpublish and then republish that one collection from my client. Everything seems good now. I must comment that the present system where the backup is overwritten every time you shut down is very dangerous because a shutdown after data corruption wipes out your good backup. I'm considering using a script to start Chandler which would first make a copy of the backup.chex file so that I would always be able to roll back one generation in the event of getting bad data. Regards, Fritz
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