recover user settings

[tridley]

Hi,
My system crashed on me and I have lost all of my user preferences for PL/SQL Developer. Filters and previous connections are missing.

I have searched the forums but am not figuring out the way to recover.

The worst part is the file I was working on seems to have been locked or something because it shows it as empty characters (28KB file size, zero characters). There exists a *.~sql file in the directory but that isn't viable either.

Any help to get back some of my work and setup would be greatly appreciated.

THANKS!

Ted

 

[Marco Kalter]

The preference files are located in %APPDATA%\PLSQL Developer\. The user.prefs file should contain the filters and connections. Perhaps you can verify?

The *.~sql files contain a backup of a file before it was previously saved. It allows you to go back 1 version.

 

[tridley]

Hello Marco, thank you for the reply.

I did find my prefs and I think it has overwritten my old file with a new one. It is OK, I can re-build those prefs.

About my broken *.~sql file. It has a file size of 28KB, but if I open in Developer or even a Notepad it is blank.

Same thing for the original file that has .sql extention.

Thank you for your help!