[Users] Claws lost my accounts upon -9 kill

[Dustin Miller]

On Sun, 16 Jun 2024 07:45:07 +0000
nteodosio at posteo.de wrote:

> 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.
> 
DM: I'm not sure if this would be considered a Claws bug or not -- I
have my doubts that it would be consistently reproducible, based on my
own experience of not seeing this behavior you've described. And I'm
guessing any software might sometimes do wonky things if there's a hard
power-off while it's running. But if it is actually a Claws bug, your
best chance of getting it fixed is to open a new issue in the issue
tracker. ---Dustin
> 
> 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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