Tonight there was a power outage in my home where I have a RaspberryPi 4B development system with Lazarus 2.0.8 and Fpc 3.0.4.
When it happened the system was running including Lazarus. Now when I start Lazarus I get to a dialog saying:
----------------------------------------------------------------- Upgrade configuration
THere is already a configuration from version prior to 2.0.8 in /home/pi/.lazarus_2.0.8
The old configuration will be upgraded.
If you want to use two different Lazarus versions you must start the second Lazarus with the command line parameter primary-config-path or pcp
....
[Abort] [Upgrade]
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Obviously my start desktop file for Lazarus specifies to use pcp as I have several versions of Lazarus installed.
In order not to break anything I used Abort and started checking the content of my config dir and comparing to another 2.0.8 version.
What I found is that there are 3 files in the problem dir that have suspicious timestamps/sizes:
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 306 Aug 24 03:59 EditorMacros.xml -rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 0 Jan 1 1970 environmentoptions.xml -rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 2883 Aug 24 03:59 inputhistory.xml
In the other Lazarus 2.0.8 config dir (set to use fpc 3.2) these files are as follows:
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 9735 Jun 21 17:13 environmentoptions.xml -rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 712 Jun 21 17:13 inputhistory.xml
EditorMacros.xml is missing in the other dir.
What to do? It seems like the environmentoptions.xml got hosed in the power outage...
Can I copy this file from an RPi3B where I have installed the same versions of Lazarus and Fpc in the same file locations (I use the same install scripts on all RPi:s)?
I really do not want to lose any of what I worked on last night before I stopped at 00:31 after finally fixing a persistent bug.