[Pan-users] System crash, Pan reset to defaults

[Dave]

I had a system crash the other day, (USB scanner locked up and unplugging 
it/re-plugging it killed FreeBSD 5.5)

Pan0.127 was open at the time.  When I restarted everything, Pan had resorted 
to it's default settings for more or less everthing.  Pane layout, no groups 
subscribed (not even the list of groups on the servers), profiles gone Bah!

The news servers were still configured, as is my score file, but every other 
setting is lost, I think.

Of course, I only found out *after* I restarted Pan so files probably got 
over-written.  I shut Pan down and made a copy of ~/.pan2

No, I did not have a back up.  TBH, nothing I read/post to usenet is valuable 
enough that I'm bothered that it's gone.  Most of the groups I read are from 
my ISPs news server and of the two they have, I use the text-only one which 
has a retention period measured in months, over a year for the ISP internal 
groups, so that's not an issue.

What I would like to recover, if possible, is the profiles I set up.

So, two questions.

1)  is it likely there's copies of any of pans config files elsewhere? eg pan 
makes backups of changed files.

2)  is this a situation pan should be able to cope with or is it simply that 
the files were left open and got trashed by fsck/buffers not being flushed?
-- 
Dave