If the contents of the note start with a slash date the synchronization splits the note

[danjde]

Hi Staff! ;-)
I've found an issue on Cyanogenmod 12.1, no GAPS, Nextcloud 13 and Nextcloud Notes 2.4.0, Nextcloud Notes Android App 0.18.0.

If the contents of the note start with a slash date, a new addition of information in the note and its synchronization splits the note on two or three other parts, each one contains part (but not all) of the note.

Example:

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Adding data into the same note, results to splits the same note on two or thre notes with a different name, inherited from the date.

[korelstar]

Sorry, I can't reproduce this issue. Can you please try to create a minimal example, where this problem occurs? Then give a step by step instruction what have to be done. Please pay attention if there is an Internet connection during these steps or not.

[danjde]

If you give me an address, I can send you my original file, that contains some personal elements and I wouldn't expose here.

Thanks!

Davide

[korelstar]

You can send me the file as attachment to github(at)korelstar.de.

[korelstar]

Thanks for sending the file. You wrote two things in your README:

1. the file "[...].txt" is the result of the "[...].txt" editing, using "Note" for Android.
   In this case the file has not been truncated, only the name changed arbitrarily by "Note".

This is normal and intended behavior of Notes: the name of the note (i.e. the file name) is generated from the first line of the note. There were many discussions on this, see e.g. #190, #116, owncloud/notes#198. If needed, please participate in the open discussion #190.

2. in other previous situations the file was truncated in two parts and the contents of the two files were not identical, some information was missing.

This is the interesting part, since it sounds like a real bug. Please try to construct a note, where we can reproduce this. With you example data, I wasn't able to reproduce this.

[danjde]

This is the interesting part, since it sounds like a real bug. Please try to construct a note, where we can reproduce this. With you example data, I wasn't able to reproduce this.

Well, even I will do a file that reproduce this behavior I will send it to you.

Thanks!

[korelstar]

Any news on this? I didn't receive any file since your last comment. Does the problem still occurs?

[danjde]

Hi @korelstar!
No, for the moment no other files suffered the same behavior!
Do not worry that as soon as it occurs I'll show myself alive ;-)

Thanks!

Davide

[danjde]

Hi @korelstar !
The problem has recurred.
I had a text file between my notes, created in Linux (not from Notes), and with the extension "txt", named "MUSICA ANNI 80.txt"(with a list of 80s music).
Editing this single file on Android by "Notes" (adding the words: "Ain't Nobody; Artist Rufus and Chaka Khan; Album Pure Urban Essentials" at the end file)

the single file has been splitted into three files:

1. i'm only Shooting Love - Time Bandits.txt
2. JAN A P KACZMAREK ANNI 80 .txt
3. LOVE IS LIKE OXYGEN ANNI 80.txt

Attaching the three modified files plus the previous single one file (named "MUSICA ANNI 80.txt") on "anni 80.zip"
anni 80.zip

[korelstar]

The files 2. and 3. definitely didn't exist before adding the new line to "MUSICA ANNI 80.txt"? And adding the new line was definitely the only change you did?

Can you reproduce this behavior? i.e., does it always happen, when you delete the newly created files and perform the described change to "MUSICA ANNI 80.txt"?

Unfortunately, I'm still not able to reproduce this strange behavior.

[danjde]

The files 2. and 3. definitely didn't exist before adding the new line to "MUSICA ANNI 80.txt"? And adding the new line was definitely the only change you did?

sure!

Can you reproduce this behavior? i.e., does it always happen, when you delete the newly created files and perform the described change to "MUSICA ANNI 80.txt"?

Yes! I've revert from Linux "MUSICA ANNI 80.txt" into Nextcloud/Notes folder, adding from Android at the file end:

Example't example; Example Example Example; Example Example Example

and obtaining the same result! Now the file is renamed and the new name is:

i'm only Shooting Love - Time Bandits.txt

Unfortunately, I'm still not able to reproduce this strange behavior.

I understand, the variables involved are different!

I f you like, I can send you all my notes into a compressed file.
Also if you want I can give you an user into my Nextcloud instance for testing.

Here the file changed:
i'm only Shooting Love - Time Bandits.txt.zip

Thanks!

Davide

[danjde]

Hi @korelstar I think to have found the issue.
I had some notes/files where the first line didn't coincide with the title.
Updating these notes, "Notes" probably was looking for a match between the title and the first line, which he did not find and went to tilt!

Ciao!

Davide

[korelstar]

It's correct, that notes renames the note based on the first line. However, this should not lead to duplicating or splitting the note.

Nevertheless, if this is fixed for you, I would like to close this issue since it wasn't reproducable.