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Unlock hidden features within Stickies
Authored by: VegOil on Jun 16, '04 12:28:34PM

Speaking of messing up the program, I don't think I fiddled with anything but what was discussed here on this thread, but Stickies won't open now, it just gives me that generic application failed messsage and prompts for a report to Apple.

help…please.

Where is the file that contains the contents of my stickies? I'd REALLY like to back that up, unless of course, its too late.

thanks,
Rob
(607)330-4524



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Unlock hidden features within Stickies
Authored by: roncross@cox.net on Jun 16, '04 01:46:23PM

try restarting your computer. If that doesn't work, just use your backup nib file. One should be saved by defaults.


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Problems after unlocking hidden features within Stickies
Authored by: VegOil on Jun 16, '04 03:07:09PM

Hmm, I did restart but it didn't solve anything. How do I load the default? As I'm sure you know there's a file called "StickiesDefaultDatabase" in the "English.lproj" directory; is this what you're talking about?



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Problems after unlocking hidden features within Stickies
Authored by: roncross@cox.net on Jun 16, '04 03:26:35PM

hmmm. Before you proceed, make sure that you have quit out of the stickies application:

navigate to the following:

Contents. Navigate to Contents -> Resources -> English.lproj ->

There should be two files there. One file is called
StickiesDocument.nib (current file) and the other file is called StickiesDocument~.nib (backup file).

Rename the StickiesDocument.nib to something like StickiesDocument.backup

Rename the StickiesDocument~.nib to StickiesDocument.nib

quit and save and restart stickies and see what happens.


thx
RLC


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Problems after unlocking hidden features within Stickies
Authored by: VegOil on Jun 16, '04 03:37:09PM

Yea, I tried this. Didn't remedy the problem. Where I can I get the original *.nib file?



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Problems after unlocking hidden features within Stickies
Authored by: jum on Jun 18, '04 11:47:29AM

If you saved your NIB file more than once during the original modification, the backup will have been overwritten with the previous edited version, so the original version will be gone.
In that case, the only way would be to copy the Stickies application from another installation :(



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Problems after unlocking hidden features within Stickies
Authored by: VegOil on Jun 18, '04 01:46:18PM

This is what I did.

I'm going to have to reinstall Stickies then.
Is there a way to reinstall stickies outside of reinstalling OSX?

Maybe somebody would be willing to e-mail me their original .nib file?
rmg47@cornell.edu

Is there a way to save the stickies I have written? Where is this file/ are these files, anyone?



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Problems after unlocking hidden features within Stickies
Authored by: jporten on Jun 18, '04 07:22:25PM

That should be safely within your Library folder, IIRC. Next time you launch a working Stickies application, they'll come back. (Unless one of the pooched applications overwrote something, but I can't imagine that that kind of pooching took place.)



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