lost cards

[Tony]

After I restarted my linux system I started mnemosyne and all my cards
were gone. What happened? Has this happened to anyone before?

[Peter Bienstman]

On Saturday 20 June 2009 02:01:50 pm Tony wrote:
> After I restarted my linux system I started mnemosyne and all my cards
> were gone. What happened? Has this happened to anyone before?

What exactly happens when you start Mnemosyne? Try just starting the program,
File - Open, and browse to /home/tony/.mnemosyne/default.mem.

Peter

[Ben]

I just recently started using Mnemosyne but it happened to me when I
first started using Mnemosyne with a USB key. I probably removed the
drive while the Mnemosyne files were in an inconsistent state. After
that I make sure to "Eject" the key and wait a couple seconds before
removing it.

Such a labor intensive and long-term project as making Mnemosyne cards
it would be hard to overemphasize the importance of backing up. (I
keep my cards in three places other than the key.)

--
Ben

[Tony]

Mnemosyne starts up as usual. When I try to open default.mem nothing
happens. There are no error messages.

[Tony]

I think something similar happened to me. Linux was in the middle of
shutting down when I closed the Mnemosyne program. Everything was
gone after that. It would be nice if the cards would automatically
backup to a secondary location like Microsoft word documents.

[Peter Bienstman]

They are backuped to the backup directory inside .mnemosyne, which if you want
is a secondary location to the default.mem database.

Can you look at the contents of that directory?

Peter

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