CintaNotes Portable 1.8.4 has been released. CintaNotes is a lightweight note-taking app that lets you quickly save and tag any useful information that you come across or just need to jot down. It's packaged in PortableApps.com Format so it can easily integrate with the PortableApps.com Platform. It's freeware for personal use. Commercial licensing is available.
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Features
Clip text from anywhere by selecting it and hitting the hotkey (CTRL-F12 by default) or copying it to the clipboard. CintaNotes automatically saves the text and its source URL, and you don't even have to install a plug-in to integrate it with your web browser. Retrieving information is also trivial: just open CintaNotes and start typing to search. More sophisticated search criteria are supported, like searching by title or by URL the note was taken from. You can use tags for note organization, and later use tag union, intersection and subtraction filters to quickly find what you need. Live note synchronization is supported with the help of free online services such as DropBox or SugarSync.
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CintaNotes Portable is packaged in a PortableApps.com Installer so it will automatically detect an existing PortableApps.com installation when your drive is plugged in. It supports upgrades by installing right over an existing copy, preserving all settings. And it's in PortableApps.com Format, so it automatically works with the PortableApps.com Platform including the Menu and Backup Utility.
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CintaNotes Portable is available for immediate download from the CintaNotes Portable homepage. Get it today!
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Awful bug
WTF happens !! Second time after an update from the platform updater all your valuable notes and settings are lost? It installs as if there wasn't any program before. The previous update did it to.
Saving
Where are you saving your database? By default, it should be using the one in App\CintaNotes\cintanotes.db and then moving it back to your Data directory when you close the app. Not that if you crash the app (say by shutting down Windows or pulling the drive without closing CintaNotes Portable first), it will remain in the App directory and be wiped out when you upgrade. If you create a different DB and save it to App, it will also be wiped out (nothing should ever be manually saved to an App directory).
I think I'll be adjusting this to point to Data no matter what to avoid app crashers losing their DB.
Thanks for the quick reply
Thanks for the quick reply. Now I got. There wasn't any crash or something I just restarted windows and ran PA updates. When I opened the program it said something like "wrong program closing, please restart".
So I didn't close any programs manually, never bothered since windows 7 did it for me. So if the program doing hourly and daily backups why is it wiping even them after bad shutdown?
Is it the price of using PA platform launcher, and you have to close programs manually before updating them? Why does the updater even do it? I'l test further. On the other side Chrome browser does not lose anything after crash and update, even previous opened tabs. Seems a bit illogical for me.
App Crashes
When Windows 7 and 8 shut down, they don't close all your apps. They attempt to close them, wait a bit, and then just crash them. Windows 8 only gives them 1 second to respond. So the app crashed before it could move its data back to the right place and left it in App. On upgrades, the App directory is generally wiped out, which is why we always say never save things in there (it's the equivalent of saving to Program Files in a local app). In your case, you had Windows crash it, so your database was left in your App directory, and then ran the updater before letting the app run and clean up/close properly... which means App was wiped out with your database in it.
I'm going to do an update to CintaNotes to eliminate the possibility. But you should make a point to close your apps, both portable and local, before shutting down Windows.
Fixed in 1.84 Rev 2
I've reworked it in 1.84 Rev 2 to manually preserve files after a crash and keep your DB in the Data directory.
All data lost after upgrade to CintaNotes 1.84
I, too, had a big problem with the update to v1.84 a few weeks ago. All data, including "backups" was wiped out immediately after clicking to update. Default settings for the database file had not been changed, and CintaNotes was set to backup daily & weekly. Not only is the original ".db" file gone, but the backup folders are empty as well.
An error message similar to this one for Maxthon popped up: "Maxthon Portable did not close properly last time it was run and will now clean up. Please then start Maxthon Portable again manually." (It cleaned up alright. Completely clean. Ouch!)
Huh? Not closed properly? Both programs were working normally prior to the update, and the previous closing of the programs was routine. (I even use the "Safely Remove Hardware" function before removing USB drives.)
For a while, I had been manually backing up the missing file, but after all previous updates went without a hitch, I started to rely on the built-in backup capabilities. MISTAKE! What happened? Was the file overwritten with a blank one, never to be seen again? Also, before the external drive with PortableApps was used again, I spent several hours running recovery software trying to find the old "cintanotes.db" file, with no luck whatsoever. (In this case, I was running PortableApps on a backup drive, to try it out, and this particular file wasn't covered by another backup.)
I haven't updated again since then, just in case there's something else that might work to find and recover the original file. Any suggestions? I would really like to know what happened.
By the way, I really enjoy using the PortableApps Launcher, and the update feature makes it a great tool, when it works. Is there a "backup before update" function? No matter what, I appreciate your efforts! Thank you!!!
Update, 2012-12-10_1302: After reading the prior comments again, I think I understand a bit more. The .db file is normally stored in the Data folder, but it was moved to the Apps folder when in use, and when Windows (Vista) shuts down or restarts it doesn't actually close apps properly - it crashes them, and that can lead to problems, because during previous updates the App folder was replaced, with only the Data folder being preserved. Is that right?
Correct
That's also why the app stores it in Data continuously now and will not lose it if you crash it and then update it. We had one other user this happened to, so Rev 2 was specifically to address this and ensure it doesn't happen to other folks as well. I'm sorry you were caught with it before it was addressed.