On 28 Jan 2014 at 8:14, Eugen Dedu wrote about :
Subject : Re: [Ekiga-list] Configuration disa

Date sent:              Tue, 28 Jan 2014 08:14:26 +0100
From:                   Eugen Dedu <[email protected]>
To:                     [email protected], Ekiga mailing list 
<[email protected]>
Subject:                Re: [Ekiga-list] Configuration disappeared

> On 28/01/14 01:46, Tony Moody wrote:
> > On 24 Jan 2014 at 14:17, Eugen Dedu wrote about :
> > Subject : Re: [Ekiga-list] Configuration disa
> >
> > Date sent:          Fri, 24 Jan 2014 14:17:25 +0100
> > From:               Eugen Dedu <[email protected]>
> > To:                 [email protected], Ekiga mailing list
> > <[email protected]> Subject:             Re: [Ekiga-list] Configuration
> > disappeared
> >
> >> On 24/01/14 13:23, Tony Moody wrote:
> >>> Hi Folks,
> >>>
> >>> Configuration details have been deleted by something. How could that
> >>> happen? What could cause that?
> >>>
> >>> I am left with Ekiga with the original admin blank startup details.
> >>> This is Second time that has happened. First time I was fussing a lot
> >>> on the pc. This time there was no fiddling on my part. Running XP
> >>>
> >>> I had found my saved copy of ekiga.conf and saved it to C:\Documents
> >>> and Settings\Admin\Application Data\ekiga.conf but no change.
> >>>
> >>> OK now I have bludgeoned it by Exit ekiga, Copy contents of saved
> >>> ekiga.conf and pasting into the working file as above . Restart Ekiga
> >>> ; IT WORKS. I'm baffled why the file copy did not work. Could only be
> >>> be own finger trouble.
> >>
> >> Could you be more precise?  Do you mean that one day when you started
> >> ekiga, it lost its settings?
> >>
> >> If yes, what ekiga version do you run?  Have you upgraded gtk+ on your
> >> machine (possibly from another application which uses it)?
> >>
> >> --
> >> Eugen
> >
> > OK, a momentary Power Failure caused pc to crash and which caused Ekiga
> > to lose all settings. Ekiga restored by copy contents of saved backup
> > file to C:\Documents and Settings\Admin\Application Data\ekiga.conf
> 
> Ok.  Ekiga uses now gsettings to store configuration settings.  Hope
> gsettings does not have this problem.
> 
> -- 
> Eugen

Apologies Eugen , I don't know what gsettings is or where to find any handles 
to it. I had a 
brief look and it seems this is not a windows XP thing.

OK,
Tony
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