Created attachment 6388 Screenshot of notes layout. I am working with Notes for a long time now. Currently on 1.8.1 on an Arch Linux. Data gets stored in ~/.local/share/notes Problem: Data copy&pasted in newly created top+sub-level-groups didn't get saved after a normal system shutdown -> the data was lost. Filesize of the empty groups = 0. To reconstruct, this might help: I had a group TODO (only) in the beginning. Then I added a new group of notes using the panel menu directly, so I have a second window (group of notes). I renamed the first group to from TODO to Customers and the second (new) group to TODO. I renamed that notes in the group TODO to TODO, Calendar, Shopping, DONE. I copy&pasted some data from the Note Customers-TODO to TODO-TODO and TODO-DONE. Deleted the Note Customers-TODO. I copy & pasted some data from an external text file to TODO-Calendar, TODO-TODO. After some hours of some other work, I've shutdown that computer normally. Next day - reopened notes - data was lost!! I guess there is a constellation where filenames or folder-names can clash up and data is lost. Or the Data in the second group of notes is not saved at all! Cannot trust Notes anymore :-( Feature Request: Indicate that notes are saved properly in title (by adding some indicator * when changed/not saved yet). Feature Request: Backup with some levels of history. (hint: ideally using git)
Created attachment 6389 Screenshot of files not getting upddated/0 filesize
This behaviour is actually reconstructable: When I add some text to the second group of notes: TODO-Calendar, close the xfce session and restart it, the text is gone - it was not saved! Show-Stopper!
Again, I experience that data doesn't get written/synced to disc soonish! Quite simple setting: Two groups or notes are in use: A group which existed first called now "Customers" have several notes in it: {13 names of my customers, cannot publish that, just normal single upper/lowercase names without any whitespace/special characters used} A second group "TODO" has contains also some notes: Calendar, DONE, Shopping, TODO Now, I wanted to split up a part the "TODO" note in group "TODO" into a new note called "PADS" So I create a new Note (Ctrl-N) and rename it (F2) to "PADS". I copy and paste 10 lines from the "TODO" note to the newly created "PADS" note. Then I close both windows [X] and watch ~/local/share/notes/TODO/ ... for a long while now.... There is no newly created note "PADS" appearing... There is no update to the note "TODO"... no matter how often I open/close the notes. This looks like a major flaw, when the data doesn't get saved/synced to disc within a reasonable short amount of time when Notes is open. I would expect to sync is definitely to disc immediately when a) the notes windows is closed b) when I switched to a different note or to a different group c) when the notes window looses focus.
Update here - some positive news, but a clear bug report: After migrating an user account to a different /home/ and reading back some backups, the owners/permissions withing the new ~/.local/share/notes were not set properly. Notes seems to work fine, but it would SILENTLY FAIL to write the Notes to disk on close/shutdown. There should be a clear warning pop-up dialog if the data could not get written and don't close. Otherwise, data-loss occurs! Bug: Notes silently fails when data cannot be written to disc!
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