I have an interesting problem with my notes. When Logos did a remote login to look at my issue, they deleted all my notes without warning me. So I want to restore them from a backup. What file(s) do I need to restore?
Thanks!
Yikes! They shouldn't have done that.
Notes are stored in ...\Logos4\Documents\{random}\Documents\Notes
Your Logos4 folder will be in a different place depending on which version of Windows you're running.
XP: C:\Documents and Settings\{username}\Local Settings\Application Data\Logos4
Vista/Win7: C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Local\Logos4
Thanks so much, Rosie. Does this mean all notes files are now in one database file called "notes.db"? As far as I know, this was not the case in Libronix 3.
Does this mean all notes files are now in one database file called "notes.db"?
Yes. L4 uses one database to store all documents of one type like notes, guides, reading plans etc.
FYI, you might want to change your forum user-name so that spam bots can't harvest your email. Instructions are here: http://wiki.logos.com/Changing_Forum_Display_Name
Thanks for pointing this out. I was also surprised to see my e-mail there as previously my name appeared in my postings. When I followed the steps on the Wiki, my Display Name was already set as my name, not as my e-mail address. So I saved my name again and hope that this post contains my name!
Yes. L4 uses one database
Thats wrong, sorry Dave.. [:(]
The Notes are actually master/detail format:
the master (header info for name) is stored in: <Logos4>\Documents\<random>\Documents\DocumentInfo.db
Yes the note details are (as you say) in: <Logos4>\Documents\<random>\Documents\Notes\Notes.db
its also not as simple as replacing both files as all "document types" are related to this DocumentInfo.db replacing it or Notes.db alone or even both will cause data loss, any new documents [see pic] created since will have disappeared, or if note was in existance it will have have recently added content missing:
If you are going to make a backup I would advise you are better off backing up the whole of the <random>documents folder..
Failure to back up the lot WILL get you unexpected results and result in data integrity issues, however, there is little point of doing that at present because we have no way of forcing Logos to do a one way sync up to the server.
Should we restore our documents from this snapshot, as well as losing all new documents, the restored data may also vanish too unless you start Logos offline.
I was looking at a way of exporting notes to a file from a backup, and then re-adding them to the current files with a new name, but sadly its not as simple as it sounds, theres a lot of data-integrity checks, and stuff that needs hacked/altered in the data to get it to work, so its been shelved for now while I consider how it might be done, but dont hold your breath it may be months
RegardsDominic
[edited by: DominicM at 1:03 AM (GMT -8) on Sun, May 9 2010] sometimes I know English is my second language
So I want to restore them from a backup. What file(s) do I need to restore?
