The battery in my MacBook Pro is all but dead. I get down to around 40% and it’ll just cut itself off. I wasn’t thinking and decided to cary the laptop into the TV room to scan in some movies when, poof, the poor machine dies. Upon restarting and reloading DL2 i’m greeted this rather unhappy message.
I tried all manner of voodoo rituals to attempt to get it back up and running but it looked like something in the library file was corrupted. So i finally managed to get around this in a rather convoluted way and save most of my work spent importing.
- Click submit bug report.
- Close out the bug reporting window so that you are back in DL2 (presumably you’ve already submitted a copy of the bug so they can track this down).
- Select: File -> Export -> Export to another application…
- Choose the Delimited Text option.
- Check most of the export fields (unless there are some you don’t particularly care about) making sure to check Item Type (near the end of the list).
- Click export and close DL2 once it has finished
- Under your home directory find the file
Library/Application Support/Delicious Library 2/Delicious Library Items.deliciouslibrary2and either move it out of this directory or delete it. (I suggest keeping a copy around incase a future version of DL2 has a workaround for this bug.) - Open up DL2 again and select File -> Import -> From Text File.. and choose the file you just exported
- Make sure the “First row contains headers” box is checked and click import.
Once this is finished you should have your library in tact but without any images. Select all the items in your library (⌘A) and then hit ⌘R to reload information from Amazon (this could take a while). Sadly any time spent finding better quality images for the items in your library are lost as they’ll just be repopulated from the web but at least it’s a start.