[Eric] Corrupt project and home files?

[Detlev Offenbach]

On Freitag, 6. März 2009, Wesley Brooks wrote:
> Morning Users,
>
> I'm running the latest version of Eric4 on Fedora 10 with Python 2.5.2.
>
> I'm regularly getting a warning on start up that my "/home/user_name/.Eric4
> file is corrupt and my project file is corrupt. To recover the project file
> I'm using subversion to roll back to a previous version. I'm unsure how to
> fix the home directory file error as removing the file with "rm .eric4/ -r"
> while in the home directory doesn't seem to clear the user settings or the
> corrupt file warnings. Any suggestions as to what I might be doing that
> currupts the files? Before I shut the software down I always check to see
> if the project file needs saving, update my local svn folder, commit any
> changes, close the project then Eric.
>
> Any help, or suggesions would be much appreciated.

What kind of file is "/home/user_name/.Eric4"? There should be a directory 
called "/home/user_name/.eric4" (i.e. lowercase e). That is the directory 
where eric4 stores a bunch of configuration files. It is not intended to be 
used for any development files.

Detlev

>
> Cheers,
>
> Wesley Brooks



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