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Further to our post about disappearing snippets, we have identified at least one issue and have fixed it in TextExpander 3.1.1. We’ve seeded this fix to several customers and have received positive feedback that it fixed the problem for them.

Please download and install the TextExpander 3.1.1 update. If you do experience a snippet loss, please let us know. If there are any other issues, we want to find them.

Per our earlier post, please do the following if you experience the problem:

If you experience this problem, you can restore your snippet library by quitting TextExpander and restoring this file from your Time Machine or other backup:

[Home]/Library/Application Support/TextExpander/Settings.textexpander

Before you re-launch TextExpander, please also send a copy of the restored file to us at textexpander@smileonmymac.com. This is especially helpful if you find the problem recurs for you. If we gather enough settings files, hopefully we’ll find one with which we can reproduce the problem. If we can reproduce it we can almost certainly fix it. In the meantime, we’re very sorry for the inconvenience.

We appreciate your help in making TextExpander the best it can be.

TextExpander 3.1 and TextExpander touch 1.1.6 now support Unicode Date Format Patterns.

This means TextExpander now has support for time zone, era, day of year, and calendar quarter.

For example:

This is day number %date:D% of the current year. We’re now in the %date:qqqq% (%date:qqq%). I’m expanding in %date:zzzz%. Today is %date:yyyy.MM.dd G%.

Expands at the time of writing this post to:

This is day number 216 of the current year. We’re now in the 3rd quarter (Q3). I’m expanding in Pacific Daylight Time. Today is 2010.08.04 AD.

There’s tons of detail in the Unicode Date Format Patterns documentation. Feel free to write us if you have questions.