Background: Before, I used Cinta 3.6, I was using Cinta 3.5. On 31st March it crashed with that usual "malformed database" error, but after 4 hours I managed to salvage the data again. From there, I moved on to Cinta 3.6 while still using the old db. Pragma integrity check at this point is OK.
I dl-ed Cinta 3.6 on 1st April.
In Cinta 3.6, when I create a new note-window (Ctrl-N) and enter data, even without yet saving it using "OK" button, I can exit Cinta, re-open it again, and those half-done note-windows would popup and I can continue working on them.
I've been relying on this data-saving behavior for saving my half-done note-windows. There's about 8 of them opened since weeks ago and there's a wealth of data stored within them since then.
For the past 20 days, there has been no crash error. Indeed, I can exit Cinta, re-open, and all the half-done note-windows would popup fine with the data fully intact.
But today, halfway while working on those half-done note-windows, there's an error. The error occured when I double-clicked an existing note trying to open it. (Yes, I always have about 10 Cinta note-windows opened at any one time.)
The error is as such:
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CintaNotes
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Oops.. something went wrong!
Please press Ctrl+C to copy the error information
and email it to support@cintanotes.com so that we can fix it:
SE EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION at address 0x7781DD93 inside C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll loaded at base address 0x77800000
Invalid operation: write at address 0x700079
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OK
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Cinta automatically exited after I had copied the error message. Then when Cinta had been closed, I did a backup of database.db immediately into a backup folder.
I re-opened Cinta again. The halfworked note-windows still popup as per normal. So at this point I don't think there's a data loss yet.
After that, I tried to restore data, but there are some issues. So I deleted database.db and wanted to redo the restore from scratch. (I have the backup of database.db).
I accidentally re-opened Cinta without a database.db, and it generated a completely new `database.db` file. So what I did was I exited Cinta and removed the generated DB. Then, I moved my original database.db back into the folder.
But now when I open Cinta. Those half-worked note-windows no longer appear!
Anyone knows where is the data stored? Or how can the data be retrieved?
(I absolutely can't afford to lose my research data because they can't be regenerated.)