[Pan-users] Re: 0.131 randomly deletes my preferences and/or groups

[Duncan]

Benjamin Esham <address@hidden> posted
address@hidden, excerpted below, on  Thu, 05 Jul 2007 17:16:35
+0000:

> I'm using Pan 0.131 on Mac OS X.  A couple of times recently, I have
> launched pan to find that my preferences were gone, and one of these
> times my groups had disappeared as well.  I don't back up as often as I
> should, and I decided it was easier to recreate my setup than to use old
> backup data (which might have actually been "old pan").  I'm not
> particularly angry—it is a beta!—but I'm sure you can see the
> inconvenience of random data loss ;-)
> 
> The only cause I can think of is that my disk space has been very low
> recently, and has dropped to zero on at least one occasion.  I can't
> remember whether that coincided with pan data loss, but that's the only
> explanation I can offer.  Does anyone else have any idea why pan could
> have lost data like this?

Generally, something like this tends to be a filesystem or physical 
storage medium issue.  You've not crashed and had a corrupted filesystem 
to scan and repair after a reboot lately, right?  How regularly do you do 
preventive fscks (or whatever Apple calls them)?  I know nothing about 
what sort of filesystem Apple uses, but that's what I'd be looking at.

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