# Joplin Portable Deleting External Edits

**URL:** <https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/joplin-portable-deleting-external-edits/1788>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [5 March 2019 14:51 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/joplin-portable-deleting-external-edits/1788 "2019-03-05T14:51:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![kleinfelter](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/kleinfelter/32/1132_2.png) [@kleinfelter](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/kleinfelter)\
**Post date:** [5 March 2019 14:51 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/joplin-portable-deleting-external-edits/1788/1 "2019-03-05T14:51:49Z")

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Joplin Portable is deleting Joplin document content. How to reproduce, on Windows 7:

- Install Typora locally.
- Download Joplin Portable to c:\temp.
- Run Joplin Portable.
- Click in the rendered-content pane.
- Press Ctrl-E to edit in Typora.
- Type a character and press Ctrl-S in Typora. Exit Typora.
- The document is now empty back in Joplin.

Note: When I return to Joplin from Typora, Joplin still says “Watching…” in the external editor button. There is no typora.exe still running. This problem does not happen if I configure Notepad++ to be the external editor.

That’s a pretty serious bug.

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**Author:** ![laurent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce7236/32.png) [@laurent](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/laurent)\
**Post date:** [5 March 2019 14:58 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/joplin-portable-deleting-external-edits/1788/2 "2019-03-05T14:58:19Z")

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> <https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/issues/1299>

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**Author:** ![angnuoli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@angnuoli](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/angnuoli)\
**Post date:** [5 March 2019 16:26 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/joplin-portable-deleting-external-edits/1788/3 "2019-03-05T16:26:05Z")

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Same bug on Mac (joplin 1.0.138) for Typora, Sublime and VS Code. (I have reinstalled joplin 1.0.135 and resolved the problem. ‘Version \<= 1.0.135’ is fine).

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**Author:** ![tessus](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/tessus/32/13_2.png) [@tessus](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/tessus)\
**Post date:** [5 March 2019 16:31 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/joplin-portable-deleting-external-edits/1788/4 "2019-03-05T16:31:58Z")

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Must be Typora specific. I don’t see this behavior on macOS., Joplin 1.0.127, and Sublime Text.

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**Author:** ![kleinfelter](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/kleinfelter/32/1132_2.png) [@kleinfelter](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/kleinfelter)\
**Post date:** [5 March 2019 16:54 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/joplin-portable-deleting-external-edits/1788/5 "2019-03-05T16:54:11Z")

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I deleted and re-installed Typora and the problem seems to be cured.