Notes silently fails when data cannot be written to disc! -> data loss!
Submitted by cko
Assigned to Mike Massonnet
Description
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)
Attachment 6388, "Screenshot of notes layout.":
