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[Jaap Karssenberg <jaap.karssenberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 3:55 PM, Syv Ritch <syv@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I did "what I thought" was a full backup of the Zim notebooks.
> Apparently I did not.
>
> Over the weekend, I reformatted my computer and installed ArchLinux,
> restored by stuff.
>
> When I opened Zim, I had to add my notebooks and my settings were
> gone. So, obviously I did not backup everything I needed.
>
> Where are these settings stored, so I can make sure they are
> backed-up "properly"?
>

Settings are stored following the freedesktop.org XDG spec. On a typical
setup that means on a linux system they are in "~/.config/zim".

All real data (i.e. the notebook content) is simply in the files in the
notebook folder, so if you have those you can fully restore.

Regards,

Jaap