On Fri, 2017-09-08 at 09:57 +0200, Johan Vromans wrote: > When upgrading to a new version of denemo, it offers to re-use the > preferences (and more) of the previous version. I selected to re-use the > old settings, but notice several differences. > > See attachment. > > It almost looks as if everything was reset to default anyway.
I'm fairly sure this is working ok, but there are a couple of pitfalls when trying to test it out. One is that Denemo doesn't check for trailing characters in the .denemo-x.y.z name, so that .denemo-x.y.z.HIDDEN will not in fact be "hidden" from Denemo. (I notice that your diff command was comparing files of that form % diff .denemo-2.1.3-280c7c0/denemorc .denemo-2.2.1-8561e23/denemorc but I don't see how that could have been your problem). The other is an old Unix gotcha, if you try to copy .denemo-2.1.3 to make .denemo-2.2.1 using cp -r but you are unaware that Denemo has already created .denemo-2.2.1 then what happens is that a copy of .denemo-2.1.3 is (silently) placed inside the pre-existing .denemo-2.2.1 and the copy appears to have been ineffective. Could you check again? Delete the .denemo-2.2.1 directory and check it is not present, remove all the old .denemo-x.y.z directories except the one you intend to upgrade from (again, just as a precaution - it should only pick up the "latest" one provided it is an earlier version number), and re-start Denemo. The .denemorc should be read from the old directory and written to the new. (Windows users who forget to reboot run into the problem that Denemo crashes on startup and leaves a default .denemo-x.y.z which then prevents them getting their previous settings, but that's not relevant to you - unless you Ctrl-C'd the program while starting it). Let me know if you are convinced it really doesn't work - I've checked it several times before ... Richard _______________________________________________ Denemo-devel mailing list Denemo-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/denemo-devel
