The Mnemosyne Project

I'm getting a "this collection is already in use" message.

First, make sure the program is not already open! A common reason for this message is that you have started the program twice.

If that is not the problem, please reboot your machine and try deleting the file .mnemosyne/MNEMOSYNE_LOCK in your home directory.

Restoring from Mnemosyne's Automatic Backups

If something terrible happened to your collection, you can restore from Mnemosyne's automatic backup. To do this, open the backups directory in your .mnemosyne directory (in your home directory). Next, unzip the file you want to restore from. Then, open Mnemosyne and import this xml file into a new database.

In Linux, it seems Mnemosyne prevents other programs from using sound.

Add this to your environment: export SDL_AUDIODRIVER="alsa"

When I start the program under Windows, I get a message about a missing '~\\.mnemosyne' directory

In the system control panel, go to 'system settings' and add HOMEPATH=%USERPROFILE% to your environment variables. You might need a reboot. If that fails, you can always try HOMEPATH=C:\ or something.

I was using Mnemosyne and my laptop battery died/the computer crashed. Now when I try to restart the program, I receive the message "Unable to load database, creating tmp file." Then nothing happens. Where's my data?

Just choose File-> Open and then load (your home dir)/.mnemosyne/default.mem. You might have to type the file in the path box at the top of the file selector to get into the hidden dir .mnemosyne.

On Linux, SCIM doesn't work right with Mnemosyne!

Please see this forum thread
https://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1885597&forum_id=537135