MetaChat - UserNotes GreaseMonkey script (by jacalata)

MetaChat is an informal place for MeFites to touch base and post, discuss and chatter about topics that may not belong on MetaFilter. Questions? Check the FAQ. Please note: This is important.

26 October 2010

UserNotes GreaseMonkey script (by jacalata) I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this question or not, I'd guess that it's surely it's as good as any place to start.→[More:]

Setting up my new puter, I've loaded some GreaseMonkey scripts which I like for MetaFilter -- quotes script, disable favorite counts script, show deleted posts script. (List of many MeFi scripts found on this page, in case you're interested.)

Anyways, I'm interested in the UserNotes script (linked) and I've installed it but I'm wondering where the 'notes' about each user are stashed, assuming it's somewhere on my puter but where?

I emailed the admins and heard back from cortex, he told me it's not at all stored on the MeFi site, which I'd wondered about. I'm not terribly techie (duh) and I don't know how to figure this out.

I'd ask jacalata but the acct is now disabled, thought maybe someone here might have an answer for me.

Any help appreciated.

post by: dancestoblue at: 23:44 | 4 comments

Um, didn't mean for that whole post to go on the front page, not sure how that happened..

posted by dancestoblue 26 October | 23:47

Until someone comes along with a real answer, i'm going to guess that it uses DOM storage local to Firefox. I don't know enough of the firefox internal structure to be more specific.

posted by Obscure Reference 27 October | 07:30

You can see the entries where greasemonkey scripts stored saved values if you type about:config into the Firefox address bar (and then click the "I'll be careful, I promise" button).

If you scroll down to the preference names that start with "greasemonkey.scriptvals.jacalata/UserNotes.", you'll see them all there by user number. You can manually re-create these on the new computer, but Usernotes stores each note as a separate preferences entry, so it would be kind of a pain to do that.

The preferences are all stored in a file called prefs.js. It can be a bit of of a pain to find it, so searching your hard drive for this file might be the easiest way. For example, mine's stored in:

C:\Documents and Settings\myuserid\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\bll2yl5h.default

Anyway, so what you do is close down Firefox completely, find the prefs.js file, and open it with a text editor. Copy all the lines that start with:

user_pref("greasemonkey.scriptvals.jacalata/UserNotes.

... to a separate file and save that separate file. Move this new file over to the new computer.

Then close down Firefox on the new computer, and find the prefs.js file there. Open the file that you saved earlier, and copy all the user_pref lines from it into the prefs.js file on the new computer (put them with the other user_pref lines in prefs.js that are already there). Save prefs.js and start up Firefox.

Hopefully this will work. It's important to make all these changes with Firefox shut down, otherwise it just overwrites prefs.js next time you close it, and your changes won't be there.

posted by FishBike 27 October | 08:12

Thank you very much fishbike, greatly appreciated.

posted by dancestoblue 27 October | 19:55

← Reunited and it feel so good || Dogs Looking Depressed In Their Halloween Costumes →

HOME || REGISTER || LOGIN