autojump periodically delete its database

[alienbogart]

My environment:

• bash dotfiles
• .tmux.conf
• autojump v22.5.0
• xfce4-terminal 0.8.3 (Xfce 4.12)
• MX-Linux 17

The problem:

• autojump deletes its database on ~/.local/share/autojump/autojump.txt about once per day. This might involve Tmux, but I'm not sure. The problem is solved with cat autojump.txt.bak >> autojump.txt', but it's annoying nevertheless.

[sergiomb2]

today

-rw-------  1 sergio sergio 33215 abr  7 03:24 autojump.txt.backup29
-rw-------  1 sergio sergio   724 mai  1 22:11 autojump.txt.bak
-rw-------  1 sergio sergio   897 mai  2 15:45 autojump.txt

autojump.txt backup was cleaned , maybe one solution to mitigate this old problem is save backups every day , I don't understand when or how autojump is cleaned seems a problem of concurrency , but since 2016 I have this problem .

[alienbogart]

Thank you for answering. I started using fasd because of this bug. It has more options and doesn't present this problem. I was even able to import my autojump database.

[wting]

Yeah this is one of the most important bugs that I need to fix. 😢

I'm glad you were able to import autojump database into fasd.

Closing as a dupe of #391