Joplin version 1.0.170 (prod, win32)
Windows 8.1
No log because I don’t yet know how to reproduce issue
Sometimes I will add text to a note, sync it, and come back later and find that the very end of the added text - just the last character or so - is missing.
I hesitated to file this for months because it happens so rarely and at first I thought it was probably user error and I’d forgotten to type the last character or something, but I notice it something like once a month and at this point I’m pretty confident it’s an actual issue.
I hate to report an issue that’s so inconsistent and that I’m really not sure how to reproduce, but because this is potentially a data loss bug it seemed worth mentioning to see if anyone else is experiencing this or if there are suggestions on how to isolate a repro.
The most recent case is that I was editing a note recently (within the past day or two) and added the following line to the end of a list in the middle of a note:
- Witcher 3
Today I noticed that line looked like this:
- Witcher
I’m pretty confident I really did have the 3
in there originally as I recall thinking about whether to use 3
or III
. And the 3
was gone today, but the space immediately preceding it was there.
As noted, I believe I’ve seen this issue rarely for some months now, so I suspect it goes back several versions. I primarily edit my notes on my Windows desktop and that’s where I added this line and then later observed it was missing the 3
. I sync to Dropbox and to several other devices - an iPhone, an iPad, a Surface tablet PC running Windows 8.1, and a Chromebook running the Android version. In this case, I think the only other device besides the desktop that sync’d between my adding this line and noting the missing character was the iPhone, and I don’t think I made any edits to this note there.
I’m happy to provide any further details or run any suggested experiments to help track this down. I really like Joplin (I’m a Patreon supporter; though not on this email) and want to be confident I can trust it with my data.
Thanks.