Gnote deleted my previous notes after executing "sudo dnf update"?

I did a Fedora update yesterday to 6.8.10-200.fc39.x86_64. Everything seemed fine except it lost all of my previous gnotes? Any ideas?

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You can file a Bug with the Gnome Gnote folks here :

It shouldn’t do that—updates do not touch user directories at all. How did you update please? We’d need to see if the gnote package was updated—that could be a cause (but I don’t see an update for F39 recently, still worth checking though: Fedora Updates System )

It looks like data files are stored in ~/.local/share/gnote. Could you please check if files are still there?

Files are still located in the directory ~/.local/share/gnote but not appearing in Gnote for some unknown reason?`

Kevin

Can you please back them up to begin with, just so we know your notes are safe. Then, can you try importing them into gnote etc., if that’s an option? Please also check the gnote configs, in case the location of the data files there has been changed etc (I haven’t used gnote in ages myself so I don’t exactly know what options are available.).

PS: I removed your signature because it contained personal information like your cell phone—we don’t share such info on the forum and advertising is generally avoided too.

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Any chance that you using flatpak?

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So let me re-phrase what I think is going on here. After I updated my Fedora release, it appeared that Gnote re-initialized to a brand new instance with no pre=existing data? The previous data files are still located within ~/.local/share/gnote but the new Gnote instance doesn’t know about them? It’s as if the new Gnote instance is looking in a different directory location than what I have identified here? How do you do import of data files within Gnote? I don’t see that option?

Kevin

I am now but have tried with and without Flatpak. What is the significance of this?

If you are on flatpak now, the file locations are different. Flatpak does not use ~/.local/… I’m not familiar with Gnote. You might be able to point Gnote to the ~/.local or move the files from the ~/.local/ to the /var location.

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without Flatpak : ~/.local/share/gnote

with Flatpak : ~/.var/app/org.gnome/gnote/some-other-dirs/

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