Try rm -r .mnemosyne rm -r Dropbox/Mnemosyne
Start mnemosyne from the command line and see what it prints out. Petetr > Hi > > Thanks a lot for your advice. > > Unfortunately, I've made a bit of a cock-up somehow, I think. > > I did > rm -r .mnemosyne > and > ln -s Dropbox/Mnemosyne .mnemosyne > > no joy. > when I started mnemosyne, it said it couldn't find the database, > creating temp. > > (in between the two commands, I did cd Dropbox and ls to check the > name of the Mnemosyne there, then cd back to home directory. Could > that have caused a problem for the softlink?) > > Anyway, I tried again- rm .mnemosyne to remove the softlink, > reinstalled mnemosyne (I'm on xubuntu, and used synaptic package > manager), tried again- same result. > > At the third time of asking, after reinstalling mnemosyne again, > mnemosyne won't start at all, even before I tried the softlink > routine- it doesn't give any messages or anything. just no action. > > Any ideas? > > Thanks > > Matt > > (I'm off to work soon, so at least I can do some cards when I get > there!) > > On Feb 6, 3:11 am, Jason Axelson <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Daikon, > > > > /usr/lib is the wrong place to look, you should run the command "man > > hier" to see an overview of where things are stored in Linux. > > > > But in this particular case the files you are looking for, which is > > your personal learning and configuration data for Mnemosyne will be > > stored in your home directory. So the following set of commands should > > work (not that # means a line is a comment) > > > > cd #this is just to get you in your home directory for sure > > rm -r .mnemosyne #careful, this will erase this computers learning and > > config data (including any flash cards you made) > > ln -s Dropbox/mnemosyne .mnemosyne #this will create a soft link that > > points from .mnemosyne in your home directory to Dropbox/mnemosyne > > which is where I assume you put you mnemosyne folder, adjust this if > > necessary > > > > Good luck, > > Jason > > > > On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 2:36 AM, daikon <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello, I haven't posted before, so hi and thanks a lot to Mnemosyne > > > people for a really useful tool. > > > > > > I've used Mnemosyne for a little while, now I'm trying to synch up via > > > dropbox- sadly my unix/linux knowledge is v.basic. > > > > > > On my work computer, which is Mac OSX, I followed the instructions in > > > the earlier thread, so on that computer I have a softlink to Mnemosyne > > > in Dropbox. That's great, but how do I make the same link in my newly > > > installed home linux (xubuntu) machine? First problem is, I can't find > > > the Mnemosyne here in the filesystem , though it surely exists! I > > > expected it in /usr/lib, but no joy. When I can find it, what do I do? > > > delete that one and then use ln- s? > > > > > > Many thanks for your help > > > Matt > > > > > > On Jan 15, 12:09 am, Michael Campbell <[email protected]> > > > > > > wrote: > > >> Peter Bienstman wrote: > > >> > It's called > > >> > unison:http://www.mnemosyne-proj.org/help/advanced-features.php > > >> > > > >> > Any tool that synchronises a directory would do, e.g. dropbox would > > >> > also work I guess. > > >> > > >> Dropbox works fantastically; I use it for syncing across a few > > >> different boxes on different OSs. > > > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > > Groups "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. To post to this group, send email > > > to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this > > > group, send email to [email protected]. > > > For more options, visit this group > > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/mnemosyne-proj-users?hl=en. > ------------------------------------------------ Peter Bienstman Ghent University, Dept. of Information Technology Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, B-9000 Gent, Belgium tel: +32 9 264 34 46, fax: +32 9 264 35 93 WWW: http://photonics.intec.UGent.be email: [email protected] ------------------------------------------------ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mnemosyne-proj-users?hl=en.
