BUGGY BUG: This one is about as annoying as it gets

David Paul

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1215603#Comment_1215603

Okay...I used the notes @ Exo. 2:4. Usually, the right note is the original. In pic below, see the file name is Tohraah (green highlight). The date of creation is correct.

Usually, the other two notes are in the Tohraah (2) file (see green highlight). Below is the middle note. I added the X symbol to help with tracking. NB: the date listed for this note is almost certainly erroneous--it is saying that both Tohraah AND Tohraah (2) were created at the exact same time(!). I am as close to 100% certain as I can be that the Tohraah (2) file was not created in 2010.

Same with the left note (? symbol)...also in Tohraah (2) and with the same created date and time. [8-)]

This date strikes me as very odd and spurious. The plain note (no symbol) on right (Tohraah) would have been created in L3. There is zero reason for there to be a Tohraah (2) note with the same creation date. I am quite sure that most of the Tohraah (2) notes I've looked at in the past had creation dates that were much more recent--2017-2021. Is there a way to determine when the Tohraah (2) file was created? I can't even find L9 on my hard drive.

Anyway, something to play with. I'm done for the evening. It's Sabbath and this isn't a restful issue. I will return tomorrow evening. I suppose this particular note could be some kind of outlier. I will look at some other notes later.

Oh, almost forgot! Notice the difference of the note content in the first note (Tohraah) and the two Tohraah (2) notes. The first note is fully edited and clean. The other two are nearly raw pastes w/ identical content. I'm guessing that I cleaned up the first note last year. I surmise that I either deleted the two T (2) notes, or they were "disappeared" at that time and reappeared at the same time some of my other missing notes reappeared a few months ago. But who knows? All I know is that it's all super frustrating.

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1215608#Comment_1215608

I added the X symbol to help with tracking. NB: the date listed for this note is almost certainly erroneous--it is saying that both Tohraah AND Tohraah (2) were created at the exact same time(!). I am as close to 100% certain as I can be that the Tohraah (2) file was not created in 2010.

Actually, this is exactly what I hoped would be the case. The second notebook is simply a copy of the first notebook. The potential causes include:

• importing notes from the old format more than once
• using the backup feature to recover the notebook but actually making a duplicate notebook ... the one with the appended (2)
• using the backup feature to recover a note but accidentally recovering the notebook.

If the error was noticed immediately, you could have repaired it by simply removing Toraah (2). You should still be able to undo most the mess by sorting Toraah (2) by update date and removing the notes that have not been updated in the duplicate notebook but are still complete duplicates of the original notebook.

I understand why this is frustrating to you and am very sorry the problem wasn't identified immediately, and the duplicate notebook removed. However, this is not a problem shared by many users ... all netherworld would have broken out and FL would have created a restore routine. It is something specific to your usage and habits that caused this very, very unfortunate state of your data. I am also very sorry that you have spent many hours correcting the problem which, when it first showed up, would have been very easy to correct with a single action: delete the duplicate notebook. Did you post in the forums when you first noticed the issue? I really hope we didn't fail you on this.