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Sync failed: "Notebook has no link and one of more remote notebooks with the same name exist" #917

Closed AtomicNess123 closed 2 years ago

AtomicNess123 commented 2 years ago

Hi, I haven't found a fix to this issue.

I have a org file in my dropbox which I want to sync with my Android orgzly. When I modify this org file on my Android or on my laptop, I get this message. I have disabled and enabled autosync and always done the manual sync but nothing. Any help welcome.

tinkerpunktheprol commented 2 years ago

I finally found a solution to this:

  1. Backup your repo folder, just in case.
  2. Delete all files inside of said folder.
  3. Go to orgzly app, make sure you don't have any duplicate notebooks*
  4. Sync

*This worked but I had a duplicate of a notebook with one capitalized and the other not capitalized after, which orgzly recognizes as the same file name for some reason and adds a (n) after the filename, but separates the notebooks in app. Removing the duplicate notebook in the directory and orgzly fixed this.

I think this is what caused my initial problem because I try to use lowercase for anything I may sync with linux, and the notebook name is the filename. When I changed the name to lowercase orgzly created a new uncapitalized file with (n) after instead of syncing the filename change.

AtomicNess123 commented 2 years ago

Thanks, it worked!

artyhedgehog commented 2 years ago

Another workaround worked for me: deleting a notebook from Orgzly, right after which it downloads from the cloud (not Dropbox, but a WebDav in my case).

A bit tedious if you have lots of notebooks with the issue, but works if the version on the cloud is fresher.