Just bought this from the MacUpdate promotion on 5/20/09 and loaded the registration info. Added a few new entries and edited some of the exiting ones.
This morning I used the Services menu to create a new Caboodle entry from an Apple Mail message and now that mail message is the only entry in Caboodle. Even the Welcome, Recipes, Gifts, S/Ns, etc. examples are missing.
No, I'm not talking about the Entries List being toggled on/off - the only entry in the entries list is the mail message.
Re: Yesterday's entries have disappeared
Do you have anything entered in the search field? That would limit the displayed entries to only matching ones.
No - the search field was
No - the search field was empty.
I deleted the application, the plist, the cache, and the data file. Emptied the trash. Reinstalled from the zipped download.
It worked fine. I rebuilt a lot of information.
And now it has happened again. I selected some text in a mail message and used the services menu item to create a new Caboodle entry. First time it worked. Second time I did the same thing from another mail message and everything else has gone away.
If I quit Caboodle and reopen it, only the last item shows - everything I entered since reinstalling is still gone.
The "restore defaults" button on the Preferences Advanced tab is grayed out.
I am not happy with this.
I was able to recover the
I was able to recover the missing entries by tossing out the Caboodle Data.caboodledata file and editing out the tilde ~ from the saved backup. It contained the first entry created from the Mail Services menu.
Why can't I just restore this from the Caboodle preferences pane?
Concerning
Hmm, concerning.
I don't know what is happening; I haven't had any other reports of this behavior, and I can't recreate it myself.
I would appreciate it if you could try adding some entries (in Caboodle or via the Services item), quit Caboodle, make a copy of the data file, re-launch it, and repeat, until the behavior occurs again, and see if you can spot any pattern — in the selected item, combinations of manual / Services entry, etc.
The Caboodle preferences item isn't to restore the data, but to restore the default preferences.
Fixed in 1.3.2
Just a note for anyone reading the forums: thanks to Richard's patience and help in tracing this, this issue has been fixed in version 1.3.2, which I've just released.
Here's my explanation to Richard (via email) of what I found: