When exactly are revisions saved?

zblesk · 2022-01-09T21:42:58.906Z

The web docs say the revisions are saved every 10 minutes. Is that the only criterion?

I've lost some notes because of a plugin, and I don't see them in history. I've made sure to save everything and sync and even restart Joplin before enabling the plugin; I didn't do a backup, relying on the history feature. But there are no revisions. I'd expected a revision to be saved when syncing, or before modification after startup, or something like that.

So my question is: is this the intended behavior? In the future, can I somehow force the creation of a revision? Or is waiting 10 minutes the only way?

Thanks.

Daeraxa · 2022-01-09T21:54:28.673Z

Not directly an answer to your question but I assembled a guide on restoring deleted notes which you could also use just to double check if your data is actually gone.

To check - you say that you "lost some notes" - do you mean that the entire note has gone or that changes made to a (still existing) note have been lost? The second case is the only one covered by the "in app" note revisions whereas the first requires somewhat more of a manual intervention (as per the guide).

As for backups, I honestly can't recommend the simple backup plugin enough.

laurent · 2022-01-09T22:04:48.575Z

Did the plugin delete notes? If so it should probably be reported to the plugin repo.

zblesk · 2022-01-10T00:22:52.210Z

No, it just deleted parts of note texts, not the notes themselves. I've been able to recreate the content since then. (And yes, I do use the backup plugin.)
This is not some major data loss; I'm just curious if I can improve my use of history.

roman_r_m · 2022-01-10T09:05:32.191Z

Could be this Joplin appears to silently stop saving note history when it doesn't like some note contents · Issue #5531 · laurent22/joplin · GitHub

system · 2022-02-09T09:05:43.314Z

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