Lost notes

[JoeTech89]

I had maybe five or six sticky notes with some text on them, I hide them and as im going along ill click to make them visible write a note real quick then click the eye to hide them again, at one point they weren’t showing which is when I realize all my notes had deleted and all my config settings also returned to default, which sucks. Love the applet btw, quick note taking very streamline. Is this a possible bug or something I may have done? -Update- A quick suggestion I would like to include is to maybe add a back up state or something to prevent losing notes/ or information I suppose i could do this myself by writing the information somewhere else but I like the layout of the notes and how i can show/hide them at ease

[collinss]

I've had this happen to me a couple of times recently as well. I'm not sure what is causing it, but I suspect it's a recent change of Cinnamon, and not on my end.

Did you add/remove/move any applets recently, by any chance?

[JoeTech89]

Yea I hear you, it's a fresh install of Linux (and I have done Upgrades) so I had been adding/removing a bunch of customizing features. Mainly Applets, and where it's still there after shutting down and turning back on my Laptop I was assuming it's a User error not a Programming error seems to be working just fine now tho. Thanks for the quick feedback and the Software I'm definitely getting use out of it!

On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 1:11 PM, Stephen Collins notifications@github.com wrote:

I've had this happen to me a couple of times recently as well. I'm not sure what is causing it, but I suspect it's a recent change of Cinnamon, and not on my end.

Did you add/remove/move any applets recently, by any chance?

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/collinss/Cinnamon-Sticky-Notes/issues/7#issuecomment-166378317 .

[collinss]

No problem. It's always good to know that someone is enjoying my work! If you want to try out a newer version, you can try out the one here on github. It has a lot of new features, not the least of which is a to-do list. I haven't released it yet because there are a couple of things that I want to do still, but I would appreciate the feedback so that I can make it even better! As for the missing notes issue, I'm out of town right now, but when I get back, I'll try to track down the problem and submit a fix for it. I'll also look into the back-up thing.

[aroumeliotis]

Hi collinss, I love your piece of software but I also ran into this problem with the notes disappearing. Indeed I played around with some other applets and the panel, but not the applet itself. More specifically I changed the position of the panel a couple of times and removed the "window list app grouping redux" from jesuschristwindowlist@catholic.religion :D Not sure if it occurred exactly at that point, but these are the last things I remember doing wrt the panel. The auto-backup feature seems to be necessary because notes tend to be important and losing them is very frustrating. In the meantime I would like to ask you where you store them, because I cannot really find, even after looking into your code. I suppose it's in some file/folder and I want to sync it through dropbox/megasync to have it on multiple pcs. thnx again for the great work, keep simple and tidy :)

[collinss]

@aroumeliotis what version of Cinnamon are you using? I'm pretty sure the issue with the disappearing notes was fixed in Cinnamon a while back. I can't seem to reproduce it any more, though I'm currently using Cinnamon 3.0.

As for the backup feature, it's been implemented, but I haven't pushed an update to the spices website since then (there are a couple of half-finished features that I haven't got around to fixing). Also, I have only implemented a manual backup, but I now have auto-backup on my to-do list.

[aroumeliotis]

@collinss I 'm on Cinnamon 2.8.8, but it the end the notes where not lost! I 'm mainly working with and external 24 inch screen. Apparently the notes went missing when I had to use the laptop without the screen and reappeared now that I 'm back on the big screen! Seems like their position is not relative to screen size, so they are not on the visible area of the desktop? Moved them to the center of the desktop and they appear on bot screens

[collinss]

Ah, that explains it. Basically, they just remember the physical coordinates of where you put them, based on leftmost point of the leftmost screen, and the topmost point on the topmost screen. It doesn't actually check to make sure it's still visible. I've been meaning to add that feature for a while, but I've been working on other projects recently and haven't gotten around to it yet.

[aroumeliotis]

Anyway, really nice piece of simple and straightforward software, and should stay on this track. The only thing is I didn't figure out where you store the notes themselves. I want to keep them synced with some third party software. Keep up the good work! ok, sorry found it