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Clippings 1.2.1 Release Notes
What's New
For details on new features and bug fixes, see the changelog in the downloads page.
Known Issues
What To Do If Data Source Is Corrupted
The Clippings data source file (clipdat.rdf, located in your Firefox user profile directory) may be corrupted if the following symptoms occurs:
- The list of Clippings entries on the Clippings submenu on the content area textbox/rich edit box context menu is empty even though there were entries before.
- When starting Clippings Manager, an error message appears: "Error initializing data source"
- In Clippings Manager, the list of Clippings entries are empty even though there were entries before.
- Clicking New in Clippings Manager to create a new Clippings entry has no effect.
- When closing Clippings Manager, an error message appears: "CRITICAL ERROR: Data source flush failed!"
To correct the problem, follow these steps:
- Exit Firefox.
- Go to your Firefox user profile folder. Instructions on where to find it
are here:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder#Firefox. - Find the file named clipdat.rdf - this is the file that holds the Clippings data, which is no longer usable because of the error that occurred.
- Delete clipdat.rdf.
- Restart Firefox. A new Clippings data source file, initially with zero entries, will be regenerated.
To prevent data loss in the event clipdat.rdf is corrupted, it is strongly recommended that you regularly back up your Clippings data using the Export command from Clippings Manager (Import and Export was introduced in Clippings 1.2).
HTML Entities Converting to Question Mark Symbol
Clippings containing HTML entities such as (for non-breaking space) are converted to "?". To prevent this, use numeric character references in hexadecimal for encoding special characters (for example,   for non-breaking space).
Special characters encoded using numeric character references in decimal (for example,   for non-breaking space) will be rendered as that character.