Comment 10 for bug 580333

Sandy, Mike, Owen, I just experienced the same loss of tomboy notes as you described.
My filesystem is in ext4 format, I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 64bit with all current updates.
The notes disappeared just after a system crash (everything frozen).

Usually, if my system crashes or is shut down violently, the notes that where open on my desktop do not re-open automatically... but I can find them in the tomboy drop-down list.
This time, I could not find those notes any more in this list.
I looked at the content of ~/.local/share/tomboy : the note files are still there, but with a zero byte length.

I made a manual e2fsck on the system (from a liveCD) : it did report any error to me, and my /lost+found folder is empty.
I seems like I had 4 open notes (based on the number of zero-length note files I have)

That's really annoying to have a loss of data of this kind! I could find some external backups of 3 of these files, but I lost everything I did in between, of course.

Sandy, if there is a more specific bug on that issue (either on launchpad or elsewhere), maybe you could tell us where.

Let me know if I might help in any way.