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Hardy crashed - lost Pan's server & subscribe. Acts as a new install

Asked by dsiddens

Hardy has been locking up at various times. It has seemed to have something to do with firefox3 but I'm not sure of that. This time, after powering down to release the machine, when it came back Pan (newsreader) had lost all settings and "thought" it was a new install opening for the first time. I suspect the settings are still on the hard disk somewhere... I'd like help getting my subscribed newsgroups and server back.

Hardy 8.04; Kernel Linux 2.6.24-19-generic; GNOME 2.22.2; AMD64; Pan 0.132

Thank you, Doug

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Tang (robertmcgreg) said : 		#1

Pan files are hidden by default as .pan2 in the home folder.
HTH

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dsiddens (angel03) said : 		#2

Thank you, Tang. Can you tell me what needs to be fixed to get Pan to use its subscribed list?

Doug

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Tang (robertmcgreg) said : 		#3

YW Doug,
Have you opened the folders to get some idea if they are intact?

If you've been using pan you may be far more competent than me, but what I would do is go to terminal. $ sudo nautilus to copy the .pan2 folder to a safe place.

Then do a complete removal before fresh reinstall of pan.

Set Pan up as basic as possible, then backup the new .pan2 folder before inserting the old contents and make sure you copy rather than move to allow for another go at installing either original or new files as may be necessary..

IGood luck!

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