Opening Existing Notes Locally - Only Shows Folder Structure without the Notes

[antoineaws]

Current behavior

I am currently unable to retrieve my notes that are saved locally. I can see the .json files with the content when I browse in Finder but BoostNote is unable to load them. It is only able to load the folder structure.

Despite, multiple reloads of the application (full quit + re-open) and despite removing space and re-adding it, the notes are still not showing up.

IndexDB is showing up as empty

Local Storage has content:

id: "..."
location: "/Users/xyz/My Folder Drive/MyNotes"
name: "Local"

Expected behavior

Expecting a way to reset / reload so the notes start showing up again..

Steps to reproduce

This started happening after an update to the sync software where the .json files are present. However, the files are still there and readable.

Environment

• Boost Note.next version: Version 0.22.3 (0.22.3)
• OS version and name: macOS Big Sur 11.6.2

[antoineaws]

While the sync software was unavailable / mount local folder unavailable for a couple days, boostnote kept on writing notes / saving them somewhere. Any idea if it stores the notes temporarily in some folder on the drive until it regains access to the mount folder? Trying to basically recover the last few days of notes..

[Komediruzecki]

Hello,

The boost note local write the files and updates directly where your storage location is.

So if you had your sync off, it will write the files there, possibly if you enabled sync again, updates should be sent to the server, rather than server updates the last known files.

Do you have some backup system in sync or on OS level for files?

The boostnote not loading any notes at all, could be because of some filesystem error, can you screenshot the situation?

Also, can you try creating another storage with the same content (copying boostnote. Json and notes folder) and inspecting that you don't have any extra files in the storage location?

Only boostnote.json with attachments folder and notes folder containing JSON files sohuld be there, can you screenshot your storage location?