I Accidentally Overrode the Location in a Note. How do you fix?

[HunterBoss 4]

I was organizing some notes from my recent family vacation on the desktop version.

 

I wanted to see what the note said for the location of that note. I'm not sure why, but I clicked on the arrow by the text of the location. I guess I was hoping it would bring me to a map or atlas view where I would see the location. Silly me. It overwrote the location of where I was at the time!! No!!! Undo didn't work. There was no way to fix my mistake. Thankfully I was somewhere with a very slow connection. It hadn't synced yet. I thought it was worth trashing all the unsynced edits in order to save the location information. So, I quite Evernote on the desktop and opened my web account. Made some edits there so that they'd re-sink. Opened the desktop version and I was "saved." Yes. I had some note conflict messages to deal with, but that's okay.

 

Yes. I know. The process I described above doesn't seem like it's very rational, but it's all I could think of at the moment. Is there a better way?

 

thanks

 

Christopher

[HunterBoss 4]

There's no workaround for this?

[Kirby Krieger 72]

 

 

 

I clicked on the arrow by the text of the location. I guess I was hoping it would bring me to a map or atlas view where I would see the location. Silly me. 

 

There's no workaround for this?

 

 

Hi Christopher — 

 

It's an ugly bug, imho.  Seems to be both an interface failure and a design failure.  

 

My "workaround": copy the location of another Note which has the location you want to assign to the Note whose location is not what you want, and paste it in the "location" field of the Note Info panel of the Note you want to correct.  As long as you are on-line, the change will be processed immediately.

 

Note that the location field will substitute the result of Evernote's "location" look-up with whatever you put in the "location" field.  You don't have paste a location from another note: you can simply put in, for example, "Lucca, Italy".

 

It would be helpful if you filed a bug report with Evernote, or at least opened a support ticket.

 

(Some will say this doesn't fit the definition of a "bug".  I've beta-tested for excellent programmers.  I use their definition of "bug": anything that doesn't work the way a non-illiterate user expects it to work.  Your expectation that clicking the "Add Location" icon would instantly and permanently remove the current location is reasonable.)