[Users] Claws lost my accounts upon -9 kill

[pete]

On Sun, 16 Jun 2024 14:18:06 +0600
Dustin Miller <dustbiz at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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I get regular power outages here  and have never had that happen across open
Suse Arch  and now Manjaro

Pete