Re: [MlMt] migrating to new computer
On 4 Apr 2014, at 17:28, Zed Smelly wrote: Thanks, Benny. I'm taking the files from a time machine backup, which perhaps was taken when mailmate was running. This does explain a lot -- in fact, since I wrote the initial email mailmate has started crashing on startup, and I wont bother you with the details, Oh, please do. The goal is always that MailMate should never crash. The worst-case scenario should be a database rebuild and this should only happen when caused by external reasons such as disk failures and restoring from backups. I haven't reached that goal yet (and probably never will), but for most users crashes are quite rare (based on the automated sending of crash reports). (Some crashes cannot be prevented, for example, if caused by Apple frameworks or third party plugins.) since you probably hit on the cause already. Thanks. I'll try to find a timemachine backup that is missing the .pid file -- this would indicate that mailmate was closed, right? Yes, but it's not a guarantee that the database is not corrupted (although it makes it much more likely). The problem is that MailMate cannot control the order and timing of a backup (by any backup software). Note that MailMate crashes should, in theory, never corrupt the database. That said, I don't see how your counters problem could be related to this... -- Benny ___ mailmate mailing list mailmate@lists.freron.com http://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate
Re: [MlMt] migrating to new computer
On 4 Apr 2014, at 5:35, Zvi Biener wrote: I'm trying to migrate MailMate to a new computer. I've copied all the contents of the MailMate folder in Application Support, as well as the freron file in the Preferences folder of ~/Library. That should be fine. MailMate does not save anything outside these locations: ~/Library/Application Support/MailMate/ ~/Library/Preferences/com.freron.MailMate.plist Lots of things transfer (like mailboxes), but certain things do not. For example, my selection of menubar counter is reset back to default, as well as the selection of keybindings. That should be in this file: ~/Library/Preferences/com.freron.MailMate.plist You can obtain the current counter settings like this: defaults read com.freron.MailMate MmCounters Maybe MailMate was running when you copied the file? -- Benny ___ mailmate mailing list mailmate@lists.freron.com http://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate
Re: [MlMt] migrating to new computer
Thanks, Benny. I'm taking the files from a time machine backup, which perhaps was taken when mailmate was running. This does explain a lot -- in fact, since I wrote the initial email mailmate has started crashing on startup, and I wont bother you with the details, since you probably hit on the cause already. Thanks. I'll try to find a timemachine backup that is missing the .pid file -- this would indicate that mailmate was closed, right? On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Benny Kjær Nielsen mailingl...@freron.comwrote: On 4 Apr 2014, at 5:35, Zvi Biener wrote: I'm trying to migrate MailMate to a new computer. I've copied all the contents of the MailMate folder in Application Support, as well as the freron file in the Preferences folder of ~/Library. That should be fine. MailMate does not save anything outside these locations: ~/Library/Application Support/MailMate/ ~/Library/Preferences/com.freron.MailMate.plist Lots of things transfer (like mailboxes), but certain things do not. For example, my selection of menubar counter is reset back to default, as well as the selection of keybindings. That should be in this file: ~/Library/Preferences/com.freron.MailMate.plist You can obtain the current counter settings like this: defaults read com.freron.MailMate MmCounters Maybe MailMate was running when you copied the file? -- Benny ___ mailmate mailing list mailmate@lists.freron.com http://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate ___ mailmate mailing list mailmate@lists.freron.com http://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate
[MlMt] migrating to new computer
MailMate Folk, I'm trying to migrate MailMate to a new computer. I've copied all the contents of the MailMate folder in Application Support, as well as the freron file in the Preferences folder of ~/Library. Lots of things transfer (like mailboxes), but certain things do not. For example, my selection of menubar counter is reset back to default, as well as the selection of keybindings. I can recover these easily, of course, but I'm curious: where are these stored? Why didn't they transfer? Thanks, Zvi ___ mailmate mailing list mailmate@lists.freron.com http://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate
