Inkdrop V6 Canary.15 - Crash on startup when last tag is missing

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Summary

Inkdrop Canary crashes on startup when the last navigation state points to a deleted or missing tag.

I launched Codex in /Applications/Inkdrop.app, provided the stack trace, and asked it to investigate the cause and suggest a workaround. This report includes the findings from that investigation.

Reproducibility

I have not been able to reproduce the exact steps that create this invalid saved navigation state yet.

What I remember is that the Inkdrop error screen appeared while I was creating and editing a new note after switching the active notebook. After that, restarting Inkdrop only showed the same error screen, and the app was no longer operable.

Environment

  • App: Inkdrop Canary
  • Version: 6.0.0-canary.15
  • OS: macOS
  • User data dir: ~/Library/Application Support/inkdrop-canary/

Error

TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'color')
    at file:///Applications/Inkdrop%202.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/browser-main.js:2:1021353
    at Da (file:///Applications/Inkdrop%202.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/browser-main.js:2:1021675)
    at Ps (file:///Applications/Inkdrop%202.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/browser-main.js:2:414602)
    at La (file:///Applications/Inkdrop%202.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/browser-main.js:2:441137)
    at Ya (file:///Applications/Inkdrop%202.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/browser-main.js:2:451549)
    at Yc (file:///Applications/Inkdrop%202.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/browser-main.js:2:488742)
    at Gc (file:///Applications/Inkdrop%202.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/browser-main.js:2:488671)
    at qc (file:///Applications/Inkdrop%202.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/browser-main.js:2:488513)
    at Mc (file:///Applications/Inkdrop%202.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/browser-main.js:2:485322)
    at Tu (file:///Applications/Inkdrop%202.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/browser-main.js:2:499758)
    at xu (file:///Applications/Inkdrop%202.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/browser-main.js:2:498284)
    at Su (file:///Applications/Inkdrop%202.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/browser-main.js:2:498618)
    at file:///Applications/Inkdrop%202.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/browser-main.js:2:497914

Cause observed

config.json contained the following saved navigation state:

{
  "queryContext": {
    "mode": "tag",
    "tagId": "tag:OhQ8pubQl"
  }
}

However, state-cache/tags.json did not contain tag:OhQ8pubQl in either all or hash.

The renderer appears to restore the previous tag view on startup, then tries to render the tag header with something equivalent to:

const tag = tags.hash[queryContext.tagId]
tag.color

Since the tag is missing, tag is undefined, causing the startup crash.

Workaround

Manually editing ~/Library/Application Support/inkdrop-canary/config.json and changing the saved queryContext from mode: "tag" to mode: "all".

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Hi @shimizu_tatsuya san,

Thanks for reporting.
Managed to reproduce it and fix the bug!
It will be landed in the next release

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