[Geany] Lost all my scribble notes

[Teresa e Junior]

On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:04:39 +0100
Colomban Wendling <lists.ban at herbesfolles.org> wrote:

>Le 30/01/2012 15:48, Teresa e Junior a écrit :
>> Hello, guys!
>> 
>> Yesterday I closed Geany with a certain file open. Then I modified
>> the file and it grew to about 50MB. When I opened Geany, it tried to
>> restore my session, but it would take forever, so I killed Geany and
>> deleted the line corresponding to that file from my session at
>> .config/geany. The problem is that, when I opened Geany again, my
>> session was OK, but my scribble notes disappeared! And I left some
>> important notes there! Any ideas on how to recover them? I haven't
>> closed Geany yet, so I still have some hope.
>
>Weird... scribble is saved to geany.conf (~/.config/geany/geany.conf)
>and should only be loaded/saved at start/quit time, so killing Geany
>wouldn't have lost scribbles took in a *previous* run.
>
>Maybe you could check what's in the "scribble_text" in your geany.conf,
>but I'm afraid I've not much ideas on what could have happened and
>where could the scribbles be gone... Had you more than one Geany
>instance opened or something?
>
>Anyway, maybe wait for somebody with better ideas than me, let's
>hope :)
>
>Cheers,
>Colomban
>

Hello, Colomban!

I think Geany didn't like when I deleted the line FILE_NAME_X=, and it
created a new geany.conf for me... scribble_text is empty, but I wonder
why was my previous session still restored.

Thank you!
Teresa e Junior