Have you done a computerized search for the .mnemosyne folder? Jason
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 12:12 AM, Clayton Carson <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ok, so first I renamed my .mnemosyne folder and deleted and excess > mnemosyne related material on my computer. next I uninstalled and > reinstalled mnemosyne, however after reinstalling I noticed there was > no new .mnemosyne folder created in /clayton. When I try to start > Mnemosyne up I get the error "Unable to load database. Creating tmp > file." I then click ok in this error popup, however mnemosyne does not > start. I can then rename my original .mnemosyne folder back > to .mnemosyne, however still no backups are created. If you need any > more information feel free to ask. > > On Mar 31, 10:40 pm, Peter Bienstman <[email protected]> wrote: >> Can you tell me exactly what you did, what happens when the program starts, >> what the error messages are, ... >> >> Try to be as precise a possible, e.g. there is no such thing as a .mem >> folder, >> only a .mnemosyne folder containing a file default.mem. >> >> Without detailed info, it's difficult to know what is going on. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Peter >> >> On Tuesday 31 March 2009 13:45:22 Clayton Carson wrote: >> >> >> >> > The program wasn't starting normally I found a way around renaming it >> > but before that it wouldn't start, what would be causing mnemosyne not >> > to create a .mnemosyne folder? I have deleted all mnemosyne files on >> > my computer keeping only my .mem as a renamed folder yet on installing >> > still no .mem file is created. >> >> > On Mar 31, 4:26?pm, Peter Bienstman <[email protected]> wrote: >> > > On Tuesday 31 March 2009 08:15:14 Clayton Carson wrote: >> > > > I renamed mnemosyne but now i cant rename it back to .mnemosyne, >> > > > whenever i try I just get an error message "you must type a file name" >> > > > and in addition when reinstalling mnemosyne is not creating a new .mem >> > > > folder >> >> > > Are you sure it is not ending up someplace unexpected? There has to be a >> > > .mnemosyne folder, otherwise the program won't be able to start normally. >> > > Do a (computerised) search for .mnemosyne on your hard drive and usb >> > > drive. >> >> > > After it's created and you verified that everything is working, you can >> > > copy the contents of .mnemosyne_renamed (or whatever) back to the >> > > .mnemosyne directory that was created by the program. >> >> > > Peter >> >> ------------------------------------------------ >> Peter Bienstman >> Ghent University, Dept. of Information Technology >> Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, B-9000 Gent, Belgium >> tel: +32 9 264 34 46, fax: +32 9 264 35 93 >> WWW:http://photonics.intec.UGent.be >> email: [email protected] >> ------------------------------------------------ > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mnemosyne-proj-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
