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Anonymous Dullard
16 years ago
January 18, 2008
02:28
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I just moved the "My Documents" folder from its default WinXP location to under the C:\ directory. Soon after, I started Memento, but I realized I lost all my notes. I opened the Memento.notes file (now only 1 kB in size) under the "My Documents" folder, but it did not contain my old notes. Any idea what could have happened?
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Posted by
Tim
16 years ago
January 18, 2008
15:35
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I'm not really sure what happened there. That sort of thing can happen if you move 'My Documents' while Memento is running.
But if Memento was not running, and your folder had been completely moved before you ran Memento again, I'm not sure why the notes were lost. When Memento starts it justs asks Windows where 'My Documents' is, and looks for the Memento notes file in there. If there is no such file, it makes a new (empty) one.
THe only thing I can think of is that you started Memento before your documents folder had been completely moved.
Out of interest, how did you move your My Documents folder?
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Posted by
Anonymous Dullard
16 years ago
January 18, 2008
17:54
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Hi Tim -- Thanks for the reply.
I moved the "My Documents" folder by right-clicking on its Desktop shortcut, then specifying a new target folder location in the appropriate field. I then rebooted my PC, ran Memento soon after that, and that's when I noticed the problem.
It may be, like you said, that I had started Memento some time before moving the My Documents folder; I didn't think it was running at the time, but I'm not 100% sure.
This underscores the importance of backing up anything important you might want to save in a Memento note (or any document for that matter!).
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