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Time Machine will definitely help with this...
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Lost them again. What's different is this time I didn't quit Camino. I just shut the lid on my MacBook Pro and walked in to another room. Then when I raised the lid again, I was promplty prompted with the message that all my bookmarks were gone. Oh and I'm using heronstalker's original optimised 1.0.2 build for i686.
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Hrm...no bookmarks-corrupted-1.plist file at all, just disappeared bookmarks?

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Oh, I have the file and the normal console messages. I didn't think I needed to repeat that. The corrupted file is as usual blank though.
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Ah, ok, just making sure it was the same symptoms.

Hey, has anyone experienced this on anything *besides* 10.4?

Has anyone who *has* experienced this experienced it with Spotlight disabled? Does disabling Spotlight stop the problem for those of you who are experiencing it semi-regularly?

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In the past 9 months, I've experienced this twice, all on 10.4. Both at startup.

cflawson wrote:Has anyone who *has* experienced this experienced it with Spotlight disabled? Does disabling Spotlight stop the problem for those of you who are experiencing it semi-regularly?

Now that you mention it,... Spotlight is not allowed to index the Camino folder in Application Support (hmm, if one can trust that 'privacy' tab in the Spotlight preferences...). Is it that what protects me from the wrath of $deity ?

(click clock, sounds of </me> making a back-up, just in case.)

[edit] I should mention, the two cases of lost bookmarks happened before I told Spotlight not to go there.
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Simon suggested in the bug that he suspected a Spotlight interaction. Of course, having Spotlight search Camino's bookmarks was one of the big things people were excited about in 10.4...

I'd say leave it disabled for now, except that I don't think I've *ever* seen this, and Spotlight is definitely indexing that folder for me.

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Well, searching bookmarks is accomplished by searching the metadata cache we write in the system metadata cache directory, not by Spotlight indexing the actual bookmarks file in the profile ;) So you can exclude the profile folder without losing bookmark searching....
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I have never had this happen, but for safety I just backed up my bookmarks.

However, If you all want more data, just ask what you want and I will look into it for you all.
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For the reports I think it only happened to Intel Mac's... I don't remember a report from someone using a PPC, but I might be wrong as some didn't say what mac they were using.

I am using Tiger on a PPC iMac and never had the issue.

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I use it on both and have not had the problem on either.
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jedik wrote:For the reports I think it only happened to Intel Mac's...
Nope, I've had it happen on both.
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Yeah, I'm fairly certain we've had some complaints to feedback from PPC users too. It shouldn't be platform-dependent anyway.

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Oh, I just now remembered; we were talking about this the other day on irc, and one of the devs wondered if Norton AntiVirus might be involved. Anyone seeing this problem running NAV (or, seeing the problem and not running NAV)?
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I'm not running NAV on either of the computers I've experienced it on.
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