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olivierkes / manuskript

A open-source tool for writers
http://www.theologeek.ch/manuskript
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Fix drag to copy feature in editor side panel #1264

Open audacenoire opened 6 months ago

audacenoire commented 6 months ago

There is a particular feature in the editor side panel in which one can drag a text onto another to overwrite the destination file with the source file.

There is no confirmation for this process nor any apparent way to undo it, and it's very easy to do inadvertently when dragging notes around. I've lost quite a bit of data from this.

FastusNumen commented 6 months ago

Do you have the last version of Manuskript? Because I just tried to do what you said, but it didn't work. It doesn't let me drag one over the other. It just moves the file above or below. I'm using Manuskript on Windows.

lbm-services commented 5 months ago

This happens with Manuscript for Linux, latest version. I had 2 chapters and wanted to MOVE second chapter above chapter 1 per drag&drop. What it did was COPYING the contents from chapter 2 into chapter 1. ALL PREVIOUS CONTENTS WHERE LOST WITHOUT ANY WARNING. Meaning 4 hrs of work were gone. This was my worst experience with any software ever. As long as things like that happen there should be an explicit warning: UNFIT FOR PRODUCTION USE!

TheJackiMonster commented 5 months ago

As long as things like that happen there should be an explicit warning: UNFIT FOR PRODUCTION USE!

You mean like the warning on the releases page and on top of the downloads page on the website. Yeah, we have that.

TheShadowOfHassen commented 5 months ago

To be fair @TheJackiMonster a lot of open source software that I use has an unstable warning and not once have any of them lost, my progress. Manuskript has some big problems, problems that I personally would never release anything with.

@lbm-services I'm sorry what happened to your system. I've had hours of writing lost, too. It really stinks. I would recommend at the moment using something like LibreOffice. We're trying to make Manuskript better but @TheJackiMonster is the only maintainer and he's usually busy with other projects. I try to help out where I can but I'm not the best programmer.