Duplicate entries in wrong month or year.

[neil-edelman]

Sometimes it silently saves (and replaces) a duplicate entry (file) in the wrong month or year. Only noticed after several years of entries under version control.

[billthefarmer]

I have looked at the code – it doesn't seem possible to store an entry in two places at once. What exactly do you mean by version control? Also, from version 1.66, new entries are stored with a .md extension rather than .txt.

[neil-edelman]

I am on 1.70 and Samsung S9. I turned off markdown; the file still saves with a .txt extension, (I like this.) I put a git repository under the directory where I save my Journal so I can do version control on my entries, (thank you!)

This is an example: I was working on 2020/10/21.txt in Diary, and it saved a duplicate entry in 2017/11/21.txt. I have entries going back to 2004, but no entries in 2017. I have also observed it overriding the last months entries, but I use git to simply ignore that behavior. I have little idea what triggers this, but I flip back and forth in time often.

[billthefarmer]

I have released a new version with updated save logic which may stop that happening.

[neil-edelman]

I've updated and it hasn't had this problem since; will post another issue if this happens again.

[julianfoad]

This bug happened to me today on v1.82 and I can reproduce it.

Here is one way to reproduce it.

• go to a date that was empty (I chose a future date, 1st January 2022)
• click the "edit" icon and write some text ("Line 1.")
• click the "save" icon
• click the "edit" icon and add more text ("Line 2.")
• still in edit mode, choose "Go to date"
• in the date picker, two-finger scroll down to change the year (and don't click any date in the grid)
• the date picker now shows "Sunday 1 January 2023", but no circled day number on the grid
• hit "OK"

What happens now:

• the diary page returns to view mode, staying on the original date (1 January 2022), and discarding the edits and showing only "Line 1."
• a new file Diary/2023/01/01.md is created, containing a copy of the edited version of Diary/2022/01/01.md, that is "Line 1. Line 2." in this example

The same happens with a two-finger scroll sideways which changes the month.

Fortunately it seems not to Unfortunately it will overwrite an existing file if there is one at the chosen date, so be careful with testing.

Hoping this is helpful to find the root cause.

[EDIT] My settings for this reproduction recipe include "Use custom calendar: yes."

[billthefarmer]

That was a good one, that's been in the app since I added the custom calendar. Sneaky calendar update via back door. That will be fixed in the next version.