Backup Phrases do not restore

[defencedog]

AutoKey is a Xorg application and will not function in a Wayland session. Do you use Xorg (X11) or Wayland?

Xorg

Has this issue already been reported?

• I have searched through the existing issues.

Is this a question rather than an issue?

• This is not a question.

What type of issue is this?

Bug

Choose one or more terms that describe this issue:

• autokey triggers
• autokey-gtk
• autokey-qt
• beta
• bug
• critical
• development
• documentation
• enhancement
• installation/configuration
• phrase expansion
• scripting
• technical debt
• user interface

Other terms that describe this issue if not provided above:

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Which Linux distribution did you use?

No response

Which AutoKey GUI did you use?

None

Which AutoKey version did you use?

0.95.10

How did you install AutoKey?

My distribution repo
Linux pop-os 6.6.6-76060606-generic #202312111032~1702306143~22.04~d28ffec SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Mon D x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Can you briefly describe the issue?

It is previously documented here x4 years old issue
I have pasted my previous abbreviations ~/.config/autokey/data/My Phrases/ restarted it multiple times but to no avail. It is not loading previous entries however I can make new ones just fine

Can the issue be reproduced?

Always

What are the steps to reproduce the issue?

No response

What should have happened?

No response

What actually happened?

No response

Do you have screenshots?

No response

Can you provide the output of the AutoKey command?

No response

Anything else?

No response

[josephj11]

Same first question as in that other issue:

Did you also copy and paste the metadata files which were (prior to the current release, 0.96.0, which you have not upgraded to yet) hidden files whose file names (used to) start with a period making them hidden files in Linux that you usually have to take an extra step to view or copy?

When you do upgrade, you need to do it on your working installation where the hidden metadata files are or on your new installation after having manually restored the hidden files.

This is why I got the devs to unhide the files in 0.96.0 (it automatically renames them). We used to get problem reports like this all the time.

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I notice that you are not running 0.96.0, our current release. This release contains a lot of bug fixes and a few new features. We highly encourage users to upgrade as soon as possible. You can find it here and instructions are here.

The installation is pretty easy to do and we also provide .deb packages for users of Debian and Debian-derived distributions (Ubuntu, Mint, ...).