[tomboy-list] Three questions--Copying, Opening, and Anchoring in Tomboy Notes

[Stuart Read]

On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Brianna Chamberlain
<angelsighing at msn.com> wrote:
> Hi,

Hi, I also don't have Windows 7 but I use tomboy regularly on Windows
XP and Linux, so let me see if I can add to Francois' ideas.

> First,
>
>             I’m doing a large project that will involve over 100 notes all
> linked together.  I’m almost finished with it, but I realize now that I want
> to try organizing it in a different way.  So what I need to do is make two
> copies of what I have now, so I can keep a backup of what I’ve already
> done.  That way, I can move ahead and rearrange everything without having to
> worry about having to undo everything that I’ve done if I want to go back to
> the way I’ve done it.  Some of the titles I have now are the same ones I
> want to use for the new one, so I don’t want to have to go through copying,
> pasting, and trying to rename each of the notes one-by-one.  It would take
> hours.  Is there any way I can quickly get a copy of the notebook I have now
> so I can mess with the copy and keep the original the way it is as a backup?
>

As Francois said, you need to quit Tomboy, and then make a copy of
your notes directory. On windows this is found at
%APPDATA%\Tomboy\notes\, where APPDATA is probably under the C:\Users
folder. (See http://live.gnome.org/Tomboy/Directories)

To restore the original, replace the notes folder with your backup.

>
> Second,
>
>             Possibly related to the first.  I simply cannot open anything
> with Tomboy notes.  That includes add-ins that I download, notes that I save
> onto my computer and try to open with the notes again, etc.  When I download
> an add-in and try to open it with Tomboy notes, Tomboy notes opens, but it
> gives no indication that anything was added to it.  I haven’t been able to
> get any add-ins or anything.  Perhaps this is part of the reason why I’m
> having trouble with the first part?  But perhaps not….
>

Add-ins (the .dll files) have to be copied into place by hand. See
http://live.gnome.org/Tomboy/Directories for the location.

Hope that helps.
-Stuart