I get this message: Some items cannot be decrypted. View them now Joplin failed to decrypt these items multiple times, possibly because they are corrupted or too large. These items will remain on the device but Joplin will no longer attempt to decrypt them. Items with error: OperationError: The op…

Thank you for your suggestion but that doesnt work for me... I get the following: /home/bengt/delete-item.py 84e8bacc10bdc411eb13a7d16a6d1b9662d5f2e06ed8ddb2c1bee9a6b0a3dcbf17f962f89ad581dd67cb1583bf01d3c48ad803a7a927fb3b5229a762d285ac41 41184 66e6710158994a92ac774a64206f8f68 /home/bengt/delete-it…

Are you definately using python 3, not python 2?

bengt@bengt-Komplett:~$ python3 Python 3.12.3 (main, Mar 23 2026, 19:04:32) [GCC 13.3.0] on linux Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. It looks like that for me... maybe I should use another command to find out?

Try python3 /home/bengt/delete-item.py

[image] Piotr: python3 That seems to do the trick! Thank you so much both of you!

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mrjo118 1 June 2026 16:25 2

Those items are all note history and will be safe to delete. See How to delete corrupt server items which cannot be decrypted

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