![]() None of these characters presented a problem for me :\/ were removed from the filename and "|?* stayed in the filename. This seems to be the same problem referenced in Not being able to edit notes with a " in the title #683. When an entry for the note stays in the note list and I select something else and then come back to the badly named note, the note is not editable. Sometimes (but not always), when changing the name of an existing, saved note to a new name that contains one of these characters, the file gets deleted and/or an entry for the note stays in the note list until QOwnNotes is restarted.When creating a new note with one of these characters, the note disappears from the note list immediately and no file appears to be created.These characters are OK - they just get removed from the filename: :\/ I tested saving notes containing characters that are considered reserved on Windows. I feel like ideally, the note list would display the actual note title instead of the now-mangled filename, but maybe that should be a separate issue/request. I don't know whether there may be other characters that are disallowed in filenames on other platforms, but I can look around a little.Įdit: After some brief Google searches, I didn't see an "official" article from Apple on the subject, but it seems that only :, /, and \0 could cause problems on macOS. ![]() I did a little testing - details below - and I'm happy to try and fix this by either 1) removing these characters :\/"|?* from filenames, or 2) as suggests, converting them to another character, like underscores. Besides that, if I forget or make a mistake and include a character in the note title that the file system wouldn't like, I don't want it to become a critical and irrecoverable error. Luckily, I'd only copied and pasted a few lines from another program into the note, so I didn't lose anything permanently.Īs a user of multiple operating systems, I'd like for notes to be saved with filenames that work on any platform. Hi, I just ran into this myself a couple of days ago inadvertently and unintentionally - I added a question mark to a note title for something that I wasn't sure about and was surprised when the note disappeared. ![]()
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