messages are gone after reboot on the phone

[Kai Mast]

When I reboot my Ubuntu Phone all tweets/messages are gone.

However, friends seems to remember the last time it refreshed and only fetches a few new messages.

[Robert Bruce Park (robru)]

You're probably restarting the phone quite soon after initial boot? (or at least, soon after friends-service starts).

For performance reasons, we couldn't have the service saving every single tweet to disk every single time, so instead it just batch-saves them periodically, like every 5min I think. If you just leave your phone on longer it'll keep the messages.

To force re-downloading older messages, delete ~/.cache/friends.

[Kai Mast (kai-mast)]

So why doesn't it save when the process exits?

[Robert Bruce Park (robru)]

http://youtu.be/v7BkdARYNAE

Maybe you could submit a branch ;-)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Joe Mooring (jmooring)]

On 14.04 beta 2 desktop, the timeline is blank every time I login. I have friends-app set to start automatically at startup (Startup Applications). As a workaround, I have changed the startup command to:

sh -c "rm ~/.cache/friends/* && friends-app &"