[Users] Claws lost my accounts upon -9 kill

[nteodosio at posteo.de]

Yeah my last system backup was already some weeks old...
I think I'll have to do it more often for .claws-mail as you
suggest until this bug is fixed.

Even compose templates are completely gone!

Am 16.06.2024 04:02 schrieb Dustin Miller:
> On Sat, 15 Jun 2024 19:32:04 +0000
> nteodosio at posteo.de wrote:
> 
>> My computer shut down due to lack of power ...
>> 
>> The GUI also reverted to what it looks like the default state.
>> 
>> If someone already had such experience and knows the smoothest way to
>> get things recovered to the previous state, I'm glad to hear. ...
>> 
> DM: From your description, I couldn't tell whether you are already
> doing this, but my approach is to make frequent backups of my Claws
> data. (For me, it's just the config directory and message directory(s),
> but I think depending on what plugins are used, there may be one or
> more other locations that would be good to back up.) Then, if something
> like this happens, I can just restore some/all of the latest backup I
> did. If you haven't been making backups that you can use like this,
> then probably you just need to use the same approach you already did
> with accountrc, see if the other config files have automatic backups
> made, and then restore those in order to get your user-made settings
> changes back. If that can't be done, then I guess you would just need
> to re-do your settings changes to get it like you want. HTH, ---Dustin
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