On Sunday, March 18, 2018 at 12:21:19 AM UTC-6, Peter Bienstman wrote:
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> It seems you have to look in Windows.old.
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> Good luck! 
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> From: Peter Bienstman <[email protected]>
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> Sent: Sunday, 18 March 2018 07:14
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> To: [email protected]
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> Subject: Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Is there an autosave copy of the database?
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> Hi,
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> What do you mean by a refresh of your laptop? A reinstall of the entire OS 
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> A reinstall of just Mnemosyne should not have deleted your data, but it will 
> have reset the directory where Mnemosyne looks for data to the default 
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> There's a small chance that you can recover your database if you've saved 
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> I suggest you use Windows to look for all copies of default.db on your 
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> There's also a section on the website on how to properly back up your 
> Mnemosyne data.
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> Cheers,
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> From: [email protected]
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> Sent: Sunday, 18 March 2018 06:49
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> To: mnemosyne-proj-users
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> Subject: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Is there an autosave copy of the database?
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> I had to do a refresh of my laptop and then reinstall Mnenosyme which, I 
> think overwrote the default database? I just didn't think much of it when 
> Microsoft assured me that my files would not be affected but I would have to 
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>  my programs... Bonehead manouver, I know... I had much work in those cards.  
> I would be eternally grateful to anyone who could help me out?
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> Thanks,
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> -Scott
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Ah... But if it saved to a directory that was outside the scope of Windows' 
destructive "refresh" path perhaps? 
 
I did check the windows.old directory and apparently the only thing microsoft 
thought was worth keeping in user/appdata/etc. was a single microsoft folder.  
:(

Thanks for your assist tho! much obliged.

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