Invisible Files Tutorial Part 3 by Ted Landau

We've published the third, and final installment of Ted Landau's comprehensive tutorial on Invisible Files, available exclusively to Pro members. An excerpt:

"You may occasionally find that, after updating to a new version of Mac OS X (or sometimes for some unknown reason), your Stickies notes are reset to OS X's default notes. This means that whatever notes you had previously written and saved are gone. If you made a backup of your Home directory, you can probably restore the missing notes. Otherwise, they are gone for good.

"The good news is that you can prevent this mini-disaster even if you don't maintain a back-up of your entire Home directory. To do so, you simply need to save a back-up copy of the file that stores your Stickies notes. The only problem here is that this is an invisible file. It's called .StickiesDatabase and you'll find it at the root level of the Library directory of your Home directory. Here's how it all works." More.