Comment 15 for bug 513945

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Andreas Jonsson (sonofjon) wrote : Re: [Bug 513945] Re: tomboy: error saving note data

Sorry, I have already upgraded to Lucid. Fresh install. Tomboy works fine.

On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 9:46 AM, Sandy Armstrong
<email address hidden> wrote:
> You might want to try upgrading to Tomboy 1.2.1, which should be
> available for Lucid.  I fixed a bug like this in that release, and I'd
> like to know if the fix makes your problem go away.
>
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> tomboy: error saving note data
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/513945
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> Status in “tomboy” package in Ubuntu: New
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: tomboy
>
> I'm running up-to-date Ubuntu Karmic. This bug started occurring a few days ago.
>
> Whenever I create a new or open an old note in tomboy, a pop-up error message warns:
>
> "Error saving note data. An error occurred while saving your notes. Please check that you have sufficient disk space...". See attached screenshot.
>
> I have plenty of free disk space so that shouldn't be a problem. A new error message pops up every minute or so, essentially making tomboy impossible to use.
>
> I have noticed in ~/.local/share/tomboy that notes are stored in a format typically looking like this:
>
> f52b0f81-b54a-4d44-8629-e72dc854a2d2.note
>
> but the note currently open (and causing the problem described above) will only have two two backup versions, one ending with "~" and on ending with ".tmp", e.g.
>
> f52b0f81-b54a-4d44-8629-e72dc854a2d2.note~
> f52b0f81-b54a-4d44-8629-e72dc854a2d2.note.tmp
>
> Over the past several days a few notes have been lost, simply disappeared from my system.
>
> Tomboy panel log (.config/tomboy/tomboy-panel.log) reports
>
> [ERROR]: Exception while saving note: System.IO.IOException: Sharing violation on path /home/user/.local/share/tomboy/a3e6005a-3897-43c6-a217-92781d572707.note
>  at System.IO.File.Move (System.String sourceFileName, System.String destFileName) [0x00000]
>  at Tomboy.NoteArchiver.WriteFile (System.String write_file, Tomboy.NoteData note) [0x00000]
>  at Tomboy.NoteArchiver.Write (System.String write_file, Tomboy.NoteData note) [0x00000]
>  at Tomboy.Note.Save () [0x00000]
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Thu Jan 28 14:14:14 2010
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
> Package: tomboy 1.0.0-0ubuntu2
> ProcEnviron:
>  PATH=(custom, user)
>  LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
>  SHELL=/bin/bash
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-17.54-generic
> SourcePackage: tomboy
> Uname: Linux 2.6.31-17-generic i686
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