Stickies vanished

[lzp]

I use a Mac Book Pro -Intel - running 10.4.11. Was using Word and Excel and had some large items on the clipboard when the computer froze. Could not get the frozen applications to force quit, nor would the computer restart or shutdown from the menu, so I pushed the "on" button, waited 20 seconds or so, then started up. Stickies had disappeared! I had a lot (not the max, but a lot). So far I've searched for stickies using spotlight, verified disk permissions, deleted the stickies preferences & database, checked permissions on "get info", looked for recovered files, to no avail. All I get is the welcome: how to use stickies. I know now that I should have backed them up - but I didn't. So - are they forever lost?

[sgould]

Did you backup the prefs and database? That's where your info is... As long as you can get the Stickies application reinstalled you could access the old data in those files.

Do you have the original install discs? The application will be on there somewhere. There is a way of installing it without a full install. Sorry, I can't remember how... Someone else will have to tell you how.

[Giaguara]

As long as your stickies database exists, ~/Library/StickiesDatabase, you should be able to copy the same version of the stickies application to your Applications folder and that should do it (faster sometimes than using Pacifist).
Stickies is quite small so you could even get it sent by email to replace it. It is probably the same version with 10.5 as 10.4 so send me an email with your address if you can't find it elsewhere and I will email it to you. (9 MB)