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Clippings 2.0 Release Notes
IMPORTANT NOTICE TO USERS UPGRADING FROM CLIPPINGS 1.x TO 2.0
To prevent loss of your migrated Clippings 1.x data after upgrading from Clippings 1.x to 2.0, you must perform any of the following actions immediately after restarting Firefox following an upgrade to Clippings 2.0 (either of these actions will force a data source save):
- Open Clippings Manager (double-click on the Clippings icon on the Firefox status bar), then close it; OR,
- Create a new clipping (right-click on a textbox in a Web page or selected Web page text and choose Clippings -> New).
If you notice that you lost your old Clippings 1.x data after starting Firefox for the second or succeeding times after upgrading to Clippings 2.0, follow these steps to recover:
- In Firefox, navigate to "about:config".
- Reset the preference named "clippings.first_run" by right-clicking on it in the preference list and choosing Reset in the context menu.
- Exit Firefox.
- Go to your Firefox user profile folder and verify the presence of clipdat.rdf. This is the data source file containing your Clippings 1.x data. Then proceed to delete the file clipdat2.rdf.
- Restart Firefox, then perform either of the two actions above to force a data source save.
This issue has been fixed in Clippings 2.0.1.
What's New
For a full list of new features and bug fixes, see the changelog in the downloads page.
NEW! Integration With Mozilla Thunderbird
Now works with Mozilla Thunderbird! Clippings can be created from both the message view and the message compose windows by dragging selected text into the Clippings icon on the Thunderbird status bar. Clippings can also be inserted into the body of an email message in the message compose window using the context menu.
Notes:
- You must download and install Clippings for both Firefox and Thunderbird if you want to use Clippings in both programs. Installing Clippings in one program will not install it in the other.
- Clippings data created in Firefox and Thunderbird are stored separately and are not shared between the two programs. As a result, the clippings and folders created in Firefox will not be available to use in Thunderbird, and vice versa. However, you can export Clippings data from Firefox for use in Thunderbird, and vice versa.
NEW! Folders and Subfolders To Organize Your Clippings
You can choose which folder to place a new clipping in, create new folders (or delete folders you no longer need), and move or copy clippings into folders. By default, new clippings and folders are created in a root folder named "Clippings".
NEW! Automatic Backup and Automatic Recovery
Every time a change is made to your Clippings data, a backup file is created in a folder called .clipbak which is located in your Firefox or Thunderbird profile directory. By default, 10 backup files are kept at any given time. This can be changed by editing the preference clippings.backup.maxfiles in about:config.
If the Clippings data source is corrupted, Clippings will recover the data from the most recent backup file created. In Firefox, this will be done when opening Clippings Manager or displaying the Clippings menu for the first time during the Firefox session. In Thunderbird, Clippings will check for corrupted data on Thunderbird startup, and perform an automatic recovery if necessary.
Known Issues
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.
Clippings Manager Hangs If Moving or Copying a Folder To Its Subfolder
If you select a folder in Clippings Manager, and then attempt to move or copy it to one of its subfolders, Clippings Manager may become unresponsive due to infinite recursion. To avoid this problem, refrain from moving or copying folders into its subfolders.
Using Drag 'n Drop to Move an Item Into a Collapsed Folder in Clippings Manager Doesn't Work
It is not possible to use drag 'n drop to move an item (clipping or folder) into a collapsed folder in Clippings Manager's tree list. Expand the folder first by clicking the plus symbol next to the folder icon, then drag 'n drop the desired item to the folder. Or use the Move To command on the Clippings Manager toolbar.
Exporting Clippings To An Existing File Does Not Overwrite the File
If you choose the same export file name as an existing file when exporting Clippings data in the standard Clippings or the Clippings 1.x Series file formats, the data being exported will be appended to the existing content in the file instead of overwriting it. Thus, if you had three entries in Clippings named "foo", "bar" and "baz", exported the data to "sample.rdf", and then exported again to "sample.rdf", then the resulting exported file will contain "foo", "bar", "baz", "foo", "bar", "baz".
The workaround is to export Clippings using a different file name.