[tomboy-list] Revovering a notes file from a damaged partition

[Sandy Armstrong]

On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Aleve Sicofante<asicofante at gmail.com> wrote:
> My home partition was destroyed by repartitioning the disk with
> Paragon Partition Manager. Now I'm recovering data from that disk with
> utilities such as PhotoRec, R-Linux and Stellar.
>
> As you may know, these utilities don't really recover the original
> files, but search for chunks of data that look like a known type.
>
> I would like to know what should I search among the myriad of unnamed
> recovered files in order to bring back my notes in Tomboy.

Generally, note files are stored in ~/.tomboy with names like
12eb10ac-8387-4dde-ac18-d8483cdbeb34.note.  They are XML files and
look this (random note from my collection):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<note version="0.3"
xmlns:link="http://beatniksoftware.com/tomboy/link"
xmlns:size="http://beatniksoftware.com/tomboy/size"
xmlns="http://beatniksoftware.com/tomboy">
  <title>Lizzy's Number</title>
  <text xml:space="preserve"><note-content version="">Lizzy's Number

555-555-5555</note-content></text>
  <last-change-date>2008-10-23T05:15:56.2204690+01:00</last-change-date>
  <last-metadata-change-date>2009-07-06T00:04:06.3950000+01:00</last-metadata-change-date>
  <create-date>2008-10-23T05:05:37.6969720+01:00</create-date>
  <cursor-position>0</cursor-position>
  <width>0</width>
  <height>0</height>
  <x>-1</x>
  <y>-1</y>
  <open-on-startup>False</open-on-startup>
</note>


So searching for files containing things like "<note" or
"<note-content" should probably be sufficient.

Hope this helps,
Sandy