Thanks for your reactions (and for putting up with me while I was angry).
A final note on backing up $HOME, when I just copy everything in $HOME I end up
with some complaint about ICEauthority and no graphical interface, thats why I
only backed up the folders I thought I needed.
Next time I
That the notes are saved in .local/share/tomboy is certainly a feature
and not a bug, the previous situation (using a .tomboy directory) was
the buggy one (see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=518585).
The idea of the XDG directory specification is that you should not be
searching around
It is very unfortunate that you lost your notes.
In tomboy 0.15.6 the note directory changed from ~/.tomboy/ to
~/.local/share/tomboy/ to follow the XDG Base Directory Specification.
The directories are documented here:
http://live.gnome.org/Tomboy/Directories
When tomboy (or ubuntu) was
@ Marcel Stimberg
That sound great in theory, but nearly every program stores its config and data
in .program-name. At least on my pc it looks like only rhythmbox, tomboy, totem
and ubuntuone use .local/share
I've learned my lesson, but I'm sure many more users will lose data due
to this
It is true that still most programs store there data outside of the XDG
hierarchy but this is changing, bugs have been filed against almost all
GNOME packages and many have been fixed already
(https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=523057), in addition to the
applications you mentioned, other
@Redmar: actually the majority of apps these days are storing data in
~/.local/share or ~/.config , so you should *always* make sure to back
up those directories when moving to a new system.
I'm sorry that you lost your notes. We did drop a file in ~/.tomboy
indicating that the notes had been
