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Authored by: james_sorenson on Jan 23, '02 01:57:32AM

Hmmmm...I wasn't expecting this much traffic on my script.
To iacas:
I considered this, but since the Stickies tend to "die" only when they are started (and I leave my Stickies running the whole time I'm logged in), I decided it was sufficient to just make a copy before running Stickies. My fear is what if the file corruption occurs when Stickies closes? If you close Stickies, and cron starts to happily overwrite the backups, you might end up with nothing left to go back on the next time you start Stickies. I suppose one could modify the cron statement to only make backups if Stickies is running.

to kc:
The graphics are text-encoded into the file, so this backup saves everything. True, the only way to copy the backup file back is through the terminal. Just utilize one of the "cp" commands from the script, only reverse the files. I suppose, if a few requested it, I could throw together a script that would allow you to select the file to restore, and it would do it for you.

Of course, none of this would be so troublesome if Apple didn't decide to hide our own document! Preferences are one thing (and those aren't even hidden), but to hide an actual data document is both baffling and infuriating. I've been trying to find a hack that will allow me to name my own Stickies data file. No luck, so far.

Anyway, thanks for the feedback!



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Stickies Icky Database
Authored by: kc on Jan 24, '02 02:03:34PM

Of course, an ultra-non geeky workaround is to boot into OS 9.

All ".whatever" files are visible in 9.

Copy to a safe place, remove the ".", and the backup file will now be visible in X.

But I WILL learn some UNIX basics, one of these days...

thx

kc



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Authored by: hayne on Feb 01, '02 12:33:38PM
James Sorenson said:
Of course, none of this would be so troublesome if Apple didn't decide to hide our own document! Preferences are one thing (and those aren't even hidden), but to hide an actual data document is both baffling and infuriating. I've been trying to find a hack that will allow me to name my own Stickies data file. No luck, so far.
You can alleviate this by making a symbolic link (alias) to the hidden file. In The Terminal, do the following:
cd ~/Library
ln -s .StickiesDatabase StickiesDatabase
This will give you a readily visible name "StickiesDatabase".

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