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#965 data loss in notes; note conversion
This may relate to bug 2986198; the problem mentioned there seems a interface bug, the problem I'm having is with data loss.
I've lost a lot of notes migrating from freemind 0.8.1 to 0.9.0. Some old notes do not show up in 0.9.0, and have been permanently deleted, as far as i can tell reading the xml file in a editor. I cannot seem to reproduce this behaviour, so I can only recommend a double check on the new note's handling code.
Another behaviour that can be easily reproduced and may be related is the following:
*Create a new map in 0.8.1
*insert a node - node1 - and add a note to it
* insert a encrypted node - node2
* inside node2, insert a new node - node3 - and add a note to it
*save the file
*open the file in 0.9.0
*unencrypt; the note in node1 is displayed, but the one in node3 is not
*save the file
*open in 0.8.1
*unencrypt; the note in node1 is now gone (presumably converted to the new html formatting, so it does not display), but the one in node3 was untouched
System:
I'm using Freemind 0.8.1 and 0.9.0 RC6 on ubuntu 10.04, with openjdk6.
I can reproduce the bug in FreeMind 0.9.0 RC7, on Windows Vista, following the steps described by the reporter above.
I have simplified the steps to reproduce the bug, by creating only one encrypted node "node 1" in FreeMind 0.8.1, with a child node "node 2", where "node 2" has a note attached. The note of "node 2" is not shown in FreeMind 0.9.0 RC7.
This is a critical bug, leading to a data loss.
--Dan
After more tests, it appears that 0.9.0 RC7 does not actually lose the notes; it merely fails to show them. When I move the nodes that should have had notes around, save the mind map in 0.9.0 RC7, and open it in 0.8.1 again, the nodes are reshuffled, but the notes are there as they should. Strange.
There is a bug, mentioned by the reporter, that probably describes the same behavior:
Notes icon disappears, 2010-04-13
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2986198&group_id=7118&atid=107118
A reassessment of how critical the bug is: in fact, the bug does not seem to lose notes. But it appears to the user that FreeMind does lose the notes, and there is no straightforward way for a non-technical user to discover that in fact his notes have not been lost. I would therefore highly recommend to fix the bug before final release of 0.9.0.
--Dan
Fixed in 0.9.0 RC10. --Dan