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Mandi
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I lost all my stickies
« Thread started on: Jun 15th, 2005, 11:37pm » |
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I have no idea what happened. I lost all my stickies and styles, and all my options were reset. I found another thread that says to find stickies.ini to retrieve my deleted stickies, but I have no idea how to find it. I looked in the help file, but I don't understand the directions in there. Can anyone give me a simpler explanation or a way to get my stickies back?
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James
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Re: I lost all my stickies
« Reply #1 on: Aug 2nd, 2005, 09:33am » |
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This happens to me to.
About once every 5 or so reboots of WinXP SP2, all my stickies vanish and all options are reset to default.
Dunno What's going on. This only happens on my laptop. Stickies is still working great on my desktop PC.
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Ralph
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Re: I lost all my stickies
« Reply #2 on: Sep 20th, 2005, 5:25pm » |
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I've had this happen several times on a few computers. I changed a setting in my antivirus program so that it does not scan stickies.ini in real time scanning. Since then it has not happened. I think possibly if your antivirus program locks stickies.ini for scanning while stickies is opening, stickies assumes the file is not available and therefore recreates it with the default welcome message.
Just a thought.
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Tom Revell
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Re: I lost all my stickies
« Reply #3 on: Sep 21st, 2005, 2:12pm » |
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Yeh, that's exactly what I think happens. The latest version of Stickies tries to get round this, but maybe it doesn't always work?
Next release will do more backing up of old versions of the data file.
Tom
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Ralph
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Re: I lost all my stickies
« Reply #4 on: Sep 22nd, 2005, 3:08pm » |
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I'm still using 5.0a, so I don't know about the most recent release. I'll download it and test it out, but truthfully losing all my notes is such an inconvenience that I see no reason to change my AV software settings and risk losing them again.
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Rob
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Re: I lost all my stickies
« Reply #5 on: Dec 1st, 2005, 10:06am » |
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I had used Stickies to keep track of my hours at my job. Last night my computer crashed a couple times, and everything was deleted- the stickies.ini and stickies.bak files were reduced to 886 bytes. I now have no record of about three weeks of work.
It pains me, because I've found it to be an incredibly useful program, but it's just not reliable enough for me to keep using it like this.
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Glow
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Re: I lost all my stickies
« Reply #6 on: Dec 7th, 2005, 01:26am » |
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My friend is the creator of this program and it is still in the beta stages and is scheduled for a full launch very soon (dec. hopefully) I asked him what happened because I lost some stuff as well. With the full launch all of your stickies will be stored on a server so that when you go to work or home you will have access to them
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Tom Revell
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Re: I lost all my stickies
« Reply #7 on: Dec 7th, 2005, 3:29pm » |
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Uh just to clarify, thanks for that Glow, but you're thinking about some other program. Don't think you do know me, and my Stickies program, which is what this forum covers, doesn't store information on a server, and is not scheduled for a December release!
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Ben
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Re: I lost all my stickies
« Reply #8 on: Feb 26th, 2006, 7:03pm » |
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I have also recent lost a number of stickies (and more on each reboot!)
I have Windows Xp SP2 and for some unkown reason reasonly every time I reboot all my stickies are gone and the are not in the rescue lost/delected stickies at all!
it seems they are not saved, I use a laptop so don't shutdown it often and only hypernate it but if I am force to reboot then I lose all my stickes 
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MG
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Re: I lost all my stickies
« Reply #9 on: Mar 17th, 2006, 10:35am » |
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I just lost all my stickies
it had all my work phone numbers and a important info. i feel so depressed because i have been running around telling everyone i know how amazing Stickies is.
i guess i have to just start from scratch and back up often...
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Star
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Re: I lost all my stickies
« Reply #10 on: Mar 25th, 2006, 10:05am » |
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on Sep 21st, 2005, 2:12pm, Star wrote:Tom, When is the next release?
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Tom Revell
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Re: I lost all my stickies
« Reply #11 on: Mar 26th, 2006, 4:14pm » |
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Some time around when Vista is released, but maybe there could be an interim release which incorporates some of the additional reliability features I've worked out?
Yeh, that might be good actually...
Tom
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Rob
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A quick fix
« Reply #12 on: Jun 5th, 2006, 12:09pm » |
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Here's a little batch file I put together that backs up your stickies files into a subdirectory named after the current date and time. If you have this run every time you boot, you'll always have a backup. You can run this manually too, of course. Just replace USERNAME with whatever your login name is. You could also just modify it to use environment variables, but I'm lazy...
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@echo off
FOR /F "TOKENS=1* DELIMS= " %%A IN ('date/t') DO SET dayname=%%A
FOR /F "TOKENS=2* DELIMS= " %%A IN ('date/t') DO SET mdy=%%A
FOR /F "TOKENS=1* DELIMS=/" %%A IN ('echo %mdy%') DO SET month=%%A
FOR /F "TOKENS=2* DELIMS=/" %%A IN ('echo %mdy%') DO SET day=%%A
FOR /F "TOKENS=3* DELIMS=/" %%A IN ('echo %mdy%') DO SET year=%%A
FOR /F "TOKENS=1* DELIMS=:." %%A IN ('echo %TIME%') DO SET hours=%%A
FOR /F "TOKENS=2* DELIMS=:." %%A IN ('echo %TIME%') DO SET minutes=%%A
FOR /F "TOKENS=3* DELIMS=:." %%A IN ('echo %TIME%') DO SET seconds=%%A
SET newdir="C:\Documents and Settings\resris\Application Data\stickies\%year%%month%%day%_%hours%%minutes%%seconds%"
md %newdir%
xcopy /I "C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data\stickies\stickies.ini" %newdir%
xcopy /I "C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data\stickies\stickies.bak" %newdir%
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christine
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Re: I lost all my stickies
« Reply #13 on: Aug 1st, 2006, 3:50pm » |
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This batch file looks very handy, but how would I set this up to run automatically?
My antivirus doesn't affect my stickies, but I just updated my Adobe Reader and all my stickies disappeared after rebooting. This has happened once before but I can't remember the circumstances around that one.
Otherwise I love using stickies!
Thanks!
Christine
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copycatzen
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Re: I lost all my stickies
« Reply #14 on: Nov 24th, 2008, 9:19pm » |
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Well I just joined the club of lost stickies.....
I was making a spyware scan with Spybot - Search & Destroy and after a rebbot... good bye stickies... I just dont know how after so many years this problem is still around... I already checked the backup files and nothing, everything is gone... this is very very frustrating.... I has a lot of information there... Too good program to be truth... any ideas ?? can I continue using the program, it just doesnt seem reliable after this.
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