Duplicate notes when importing from another account

[Scribetrotter 0]

Hello! I'm not a power user at all... more like a beginner.

Someone recently shared an account with me. I exported a notebook from that account, and imported it into my account. Now when I search I find both my note and the shared note. If I delete my note, I am left with only the shared note, so I can't change tags etc. If I delete the shared note, then the others will be penalized. I'm at a loss and would welcome some help! Thank you.

[JMichaelTX 4,117]

If you are going to keep the joined NB, why copy the NB to  your account?

But, if you need to do so, then you could add a tag to the copied Notes to indicate you copied it.  Maybe something like "From.AcctName"

then in your search, just add a tag of -tag:From.AcctName  to the searchbox, to exclude the Notes in your account that you have copied.

OTOH, you, or the owner, could add a tag of "Shared" to all Notes in the shared NB.

Then your search would be:  -tag:shared  to exclude the Notes in the shared account.