10.1.4 Upgrade ATE MY STICKIES

**ScottW** · April 18th, 2002, 12:25 AM

After I rebooted from my upgrade, my stickies where all gone. The application existed, but that was about it. THANKFULLY I had a backup of my .StickiesDatabase from about 5 days ago... I live on stickies... I also just realized how valuable my data is and should make sure my backup system works every night.

Admin

**edX** · April 18th, 2002, 12:36 AM

I got some sort of anonymous warning that something in my dock might not work with this version of the os and to contact the developer and not apple. it didn't say what the thing was. but everything appears to still be there and to still work like it always has. sorry about your stickies MacD.

**dricci** · April 18th, 2002, 12:45 AM

My (3) stickies appear to be fine. No major problems so far.. If anything it made Sherlock faster but that's about all I can notice.

**blb** · April 18th, 2002, 01:16 AM

It'd be really weird if the update itself did it; perhaps on the reboot after installing, the stickies program didn't quit properly, and couldn't save the data?
Otherwise, maybe your system needs an fsck?

**scruffy** · April 18th, 2002, 01:20 AM

People actually use stickies? I never would have guessed.

**simX** · April 18th, 2002, 01:46 AM

Admin: The Stickies database randomly gets erased on some restarts for some reason. It has done it to me when I simply restarted, and I hadn't even installed an operating system update.

I have a script that can be run from the Script menu extra that will automatically create backups of your Stickies database, if you want. It actually maintains three backups, so you'll really be protected.

Ed: That warning is for Dock Extras, otherwise known as "docklings". If you have one installed, OS X will always display that message after an operating system update. Just check your docklings and see if they work fine; if they do, then there should be no problems (and that will be the only time you see that message until you upgrade your operating system again).

**edX** · April 18th, 2002, 02:49 AM

thanks for the info simone

they all appear to be ok so far

**StarBuck** · April 18th, 2002, 01:44 PM

I use my stickies all the time when I upgraded lastnight and rebooted all my notes had vanished. This is the secont time this has happened to me when I have updated my system software last time was when I updated to 10.1.1

Thats when I started making backups of the file.