Data lost during sync

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1

Bug report

I had some important notes, worked on them yesterday from several workspaces (1 Windows and 1 MacOS), and today two notes are completely gone! Not in trash, but gone. How did this happen? and how can I recover them?

Info

  • Platforms: macOS + Windows
  • App Version: latest

Reproduce

See above

2

Hi Egor,

Thank you for the report.
Thatā€™s strange. But basically it does not delete notes unless you manually deleted them.
Have you set up the backup?
Deleted notes should be stored in _deleted folder.
If you accidentally overwritten the note, you can restore old revisions of it.
Hope that helps.
If it does not help, Iā€™m sorry but I canā€™t restore your notes.

3

Thanks for a quick reply. That is strange indeed. The tags that Iā€™ve assigned to these notes are present but they donā€™t contain any notes inside. I donā€™t think I have overwritten those notes with others, they were too different. And I am pretty sure Iā€™ve never empties the Trash, and they are not there now.

As for the backup - no, I havenā€™t enabled it. Maybe it should be turned on by default?

Anyway, thanks for the help, letā€™s just hope itā€™s one time glitch, otherwise I love Inkdrop.

4

If they have been accidentally deleted during sync, they are still stored in your local database.
You can get a list of locally deleted documents by running this code in Developer Tools:

var db = inkdrop.main.dataStore.getLocalDB()
var changes = await db.pouch.changes({
  since: 0
})
var { results } = changes
var deletedIds = results
  .filter(change => change.deleted)
  .filter(change => change.id.startsWith('note:'))
  .map(change => change.id)
console.log('Deleted IDs:', deletedIds)

To get revisions of a deleted document:

await db.pouch.get("note:*****", { revs: true, open_revs: "all" })

You get something like:

[
  {
    "ok": {
      "_id": "note:_fjreUO3w",
      "_rev": "3-630a66dcebb069914e17e812d2d0cc93",
      "_deleted": true,
      "_revisions": {
        "start": 3,
        "ids": [
          "630a66dcebb069914e17e812d2d0cc93",
          "c242ec8592ba8b8f4034d539ba306b70",
          "96fb06c4c3c41480c136992dc3aeca2d"
        ]
      }
    }
  }
]

Then, get a previous revision like so:

await db.pouch.get("note:_fjreUO3w", { rev: "2-c242ec8592ba8b8f4034d539ba306b70" })

Backup configuration depends on environment, so itā€™s optional. But it would be nice to encourage with a message or something.
Thank you for the suggestion and hope that helps.