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MultiMarkdown version of Notational Velocity with Markdown editing features and preview
http://brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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Disappearing Notes and Auto-Reverting #242

Open ciscoiv opened 10 years ago

ciscoiv commented 10 years ago

Setup: Mavericks on my 2013 MBA

Problem: I originally set up my preferences so that it would save my files as separate plain text files in a folder on my MBA. I notice that when I shut down my computer and then turn it back on and run nvalt that my notes will all disappear. Furthermore, my storage preferences will revert back to single database...

Basically, it's as if I never had used nvalts. Yet, I can still find the text files in the folder and open them. It's just annoying to have to do this all the time, rename the files (gets messed up sometimes when opening), and I'm concerned with the risk of edits not being saved or in the future when I have so many files that it'd be a pain to re-open them one by one.

If anyone is faced similar problems and found a fix let me know.. Am I just not setting preferences correctly? I select "Plain Text" then hit the arrow near the + -.

Thanks!

ArmchairQuarterback commented 10 years ago

There are a couple of threads for this:

https://github.com/ttscoff/nv/issues/237

https://github.com/ttscoff/nv/issues/220

ilesm commented 10 years ago

Also this one: https://github.com/ttscoff/nv/issues/220 which has instructions to reset nvAlt to its initial settings.

I have my plain text notes in a directory that I mount with encfs. I've found that if I start nvAlt without having the directory mounted (e.g. if nvAlt starts automatically when I log in, before I've had a chance to mount my encfs volumes) then nvAlt is b0rked and exhibits the behaviour you describe: it reverts to "database" rather than "plain text" and I can't do anything to change it short of resetting the preferences completely as described in issue #220.

However, if the directory is mounted and accessible when nvAlt starts then there's no problem.

Mike.

On 14 January 2014 06:18, ArmchairQuarterback notifications@github.comwrote:

There are a couple of threads for this:

237 https://github.com/ttscoff/nv/issues/237

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/ttscoff/nv/issues/242#issuecomment-32256679 .

ciscoiv commented 10 years ago

Man.. I'm a tech rookie here so both those solutions whizzed by me.. Anyway we could break it down into layman's terms?

Also how often do updates for nvALT occur? I noticed the blog still lists 106 as the latest version but in fact I have 111. Do updates need to simply be re-downloaded and installed?