Trying to get all my files in the right place before updating
Posted: Sun Jul 30, 2017 11:42 pm
Hi,
I'm about to upgrade to the last version, so I'm trying to do a bit of housekeeping before, by eliminating old files related to deprecated installs of CN.
I have been working with the portable version of CN for a while, following advice given here. It has been going smoothly, so I have just uninstalled from the Program Files (x86) folder the previous "installed" version I had stopped using.
Now it seems I have some old user data files which are no longer in use. But I also think some of the current files are not where they should be ! I'd like to make sure I won't erase my recent work...
My CN executable is in a custom Portable software folder, outside of Window's Program Files and Program Files (x86) folders. My understanding was that therefore, all current user data should have been generated in that folder as well. However :
My current notebooks (judging from Modified dates) seem to have remained in my User\AppData\Roaming folder.
In this folder, there are also some files which I think are obsolete (again, judging from Modified dates) : one cintanotes.settings, one cintanotes.db which is I suppose an original, empty copy of a notebook, plus a backup and a cache folder, both with seemingly obsolete contents.
On the other hand, the Portable software folder, with CintaNotes.exe, seems to also hold some of my current data. It has one cintanotes.settings modified yesterday, the backup and cache folders seem newer, and it has the license.key.
Naturally, it wouldn't be funny if there were no old data in there as well : versions of my notebooks last modified long ago, plus an old cintanotes.db stub.
Closing the list, my admin user account's AppData folder also has an old cintanotes.settings.
Any help to clear up this mess would be greatly appreciated...
I'm about to upgrade to the last version, so I'm trying to do a bit of housekeeping before, by eliminating old files related to deprecated installs of CN.
I have been working with the portable version of CN for a while, following advice given here. It has been going smoothly, so I have just uninstalled from the Program Files (x86) folder the previous "installed" version I had stopped using.
Now it seems I have some old user data files which are no longer in use. But I also think some of the current files are not where they should be ! I'd like to make sure I won't erase my recent work...
My CN executable is in a custom Portable software folder, outside of Window's Program Files and Program Files (x86) folders. My understanding was that therefore, all current user data should have been generated in that folder as well. However :
My current notebooks (judging from Modified dates) seem to have remained in my User\AppData\Roaming folder.
In this folder, there are also some files which I think are obsolete (again, judging from Modified dates) : one cintanotes.settings, one cintanotes.db which is I suppose an original, empty copy of a notebook, plus a backup and a cache folder, both with seemingly obsolete contents.
On the other hand, the Portable software folder, with CintaNotes.exe, seems to also hold some of my current data. It has one cintanotes.settings modified yesterday, the backup and cache folders seem newer, and it has the license.key.
Naturally, it wouldn't be funny if there were no old data in there as well : versions of my notebooks last modified long ago, plus an old cintanotes.db stub.
Closing the list, my admin user account's AppData folder also has an old cintanotes.settings.
Any help to clear up this mess would be greatly appreciated...