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Update: I have made room for the database on my notebook ssd. On the PC, there will only be a secondary free EN account. Thx again. The symbolic link is still useful for other things. Regards

Thank you. Maybe someone should put your good advice out to the front, maybe even in the preferences menu. How can people know before they overload their notbook ssds? On the PC, I had all kinds of issues until I tried to import a local folder and got an error message from the SSD. It was not that small, so it worked (kind of) for a while. I had just assumed the new version was using the same location as the old one, on a hard drive. It is now there using the hardlink. I have another SSD lying around, so I'll try to attach that. So will I still have to use the hardlink technique? At least I'll be able to use the same database on my laptop then. On the notebook, I have only used EN legacy with a free account on the side. There would have been all manner of trouble, had I tried to start using my 25GB database.

Import folders are now added, finally. Not being able to specify database location is positively weird, because everybody uses SSDs now! I seem to remember that the entire Windows user data folder can be moved somewhere else, but the hard link workaround helps a lot.

Hallo, PinkElephant, wusste gar nicht, dass Sie Deutsch verwenden : ) Mein Problem mit Wiederherstellung aus .enex ist schon sehr lange her, vielleicht hat sich das seither verbessert und das Erstellungsdatum wird jetzt mitgespeichert. Thanks again for your patience. My issue is not with local storage. I can change my use cases, and use Copernic for local searches. My problems are the performance and fuctionality issues in Android and Windows that have persisted for more than a year now. Open Evernote on Android and see a little green elephant for minutes. Unsynced notes with blue corners finally appear, but there is no sync button. Find "synchronize now" with 5 clicks in the settings, but new notes don't arrive and the blue corners persist. I was only trying to fix that by moving a lot of notes to local, hoping to keep all the associations I have built up in ten years. As far as I can tell, none of the many alternatives have tag hierarchy. It took me some years to understand the point of that, but then I used it all the time. Notes moved to local notebooks seem to keep their tags and internal links, TOC and so on. The .enex or .html exports do not preserve those. Unfortunately, moving most of my notes to local has not solved the performance problems, though clipping in Android has improved. If EN ever starts to work smoothly again, I might keep it and develop some new use cases for the tag hierarchy. Is the search syntax still the same? I haven't been able to try it it, because no search has ever finished for me in EN10... Gute Nacht und Grüße aus Hannover!

Thank you for the suggestion. I might be able to use it for working with local files on my drive. That would be a new use for EN, but not something OneNote could not do as well or better. However, as I explained in another thread, my reason for local notebooks was not because of trust issues. I basically resigned on that long ago when EN moved to the US. I had originally chosen it specifically because it was based in Switzerland. I turned to local notebooks again recently to remove some 25k notes from the cloud to see if that would help with the intolerable EN 10 performance issues on Android and Windows. There was, in fact, some improvement. But I do not want to lose 10 years of hand-built associations, tags etc. among those 25k notes, as well as their original timeline. A re-import from .enex I did some years ago when I got this new computer destroyed my timeline and also lost the contents of some thousand notes. The time and date of a clipping is important reference data when the original Web page disappears. But I really appreciate your holding up the tent.

OneNote for Windows (formerly OneNote 2016) remains free, and OneNote 2019 and 2021 is included in the respective standalone Office packages. They are designed to sync over OneDrive but will also use notebooks stored locally. They do seem to require a MS account, as does Windows itself.

Dear PinkElephant. here another update. The other day, I had the idea that my problems with the the new version (Android and Windows: physically not working, lagging forever, not capturing shares etc.) might be due to too many notes (30k). So I went ahead and created local notebooks in Legacy such as L-2016, L-2017 etc while keeping only working notes in synced notebooks (now around 2k), On the positive side, tags and, I believe, OCR data has been preserved. Then I reinstalled EN on Android. Now the performance is acceptable and some things are working. Then I find out: there are no local notebooks in the EN 10 version. NO way am I re-importing all that reference material, only to have EN choke on it. In another thread, you explain patiently that cloud syncing is the whole point of EN. Well, there are plenty of other free and low-priced solutions for taking and retrieving notes on different devices, having some workflow, and collaboration. The actual note page on OneNote, for example, is much more responsive and easy to edit. I can live with a workflow from onenote, as it was available at work where Evernote was not allowed. What I was using EN for was to develop a knowledge network database, carefully evolving keywords, tags, links, saved searches and so on over more than ten years. I will now have to try to recapture all that intuitive thinking in a different language. Physically, Backupery has saved all the material, and I can search it on my disk using Copernic - though it will be hard to find pictures that way. EN has already ruined my timeline by updating all notes re-imported from .enex to a new date some years ago when I got my new computer. Why not back up the creation date in a new field or as text when exporting. When Legacy goes, I will be gone too. Let EN try their luck with a new generation of users who have tons of productivity and collaboration tools to choose from. I use those at work all the time. Thank you for all your help! P.S. I have given up on Nimbus, had trouble with my first new note. They don't have internal links yet, only links to share outside the program. Might check out Joplin.

Thank you, Pink. I did not give details on purpose, because it's no longer about troubleshooting issues. As I said, during the past year, I have not had one occasion where EN for Windows or Android worked. I have been getting along with legcy, but that also lags for minutes at a time. Interesting that it works for some. In the reviews of the Android app, occasionally there is a satisfied customer, but most reviews have been negative and disappointed since the refactor. Each person reports a different problem, or just lagging, or not being able to open the app at all. Maybe I have too many notes, some 30K (and I believe about 10K have been lost). Now I am going to start my daily operations with Nimbus, backup all my notes to OneNote, and start deleting notebooks from EN. Some years ago, I tried to park older archives in an .enex file, but found that they can not be restored without losing all dates and tags. I also considered creating local folders and moving them to a local backup, but I don't know whether they can be restored. I will continue to check in on EN from time to time, even rebuild everything as you suggest, to see if things improve, but I will not renew my subscription.

I am not talking about functions lost and disrupted workflow of a dedicated user. I am not talking about new features I may or may not need. I am not talking about Windows and Android versions, where I don't know where to look for a function and therefore do not know if it is there or not. I could resign myself and even sort of enjoy starting all over with the new version, inventing new workflows and trying out new features. The problem is that my Evernote apps do not work at all (except for the Web Clipper, to be fair.) Today I wanted to find something in the Desktop app. The search was extremely slow, but came up with some hits. The tiles showed up, but the content of the note did not appear in the right panel and I was not able to open the note in a new tab. Then the app stopped completely and needed to be restarted. During the past year, there has not been one try of the Android app or the Windows desktop where the function I tried to use physically worked. When I opened the Android app, at first it would crash directly, then it would get stuck on the splash screen, now it tries to import the last clip I sent to it weeks ago. Manual sync will not sync new notes, so they stay on my phone indefinitely. I am tired of sending in tickets for any of these misbehaviors and getting answers that don't fit. As a software test specialist, this is a failure of function. EN should have automatic tests running every second before releasing anything at all.

Thank you for replying. You are really a guru here : ) Ah, but I have never had any luck with general web searches or forum search concerning Evernote. Sometimes I find my issue solved in an old version 2018. It is not really easy to describe what is going on. I recently spent a whole afternoon describing what my Evernote for Android was doing (or not doing) to support, and asked them what permissions, if any, were required. (Among other things, it got stuck in cycles of "preparing your new app"). They were not really able to answer (understandably) and asked me to re-install the app, but I had done this twice already. Also, "shares to Evernote" from other apps on Android, that I used a lot, now only open Evernote and do nothing. I would like to know if this feature should be working or will be re-added in the future. Can you find the answer to that in reasonable time by searching? I believe a lot of people are having the same problems but don't have the time or the wording to find or make a new post. I still think that it should be easy to find up to date information, such as links to the release notes, and troubleshooting links, at least if there is a major version change. If the advice is to install older versions, there should be links to those, too.This information should, of course, be found by general search as well. This can be just as up to date as the release notes. If you say that forum people are writing on their own time, I understand that they can not be expected to take care of this. In that case, this information could instead be placed on the help pages. I would be grateful, however, if help would not automatically switch (from a search engine entry) to German as soon as I log in. EDIT: Just noticed this new post. Maybe this is what we need.

At the top of this forum, there should be an up to date list of known issues, including solutions if there is something the user can do. A photography software vendor had this feature, and I found the problem I was having including the solution right at the the top. This forum makes it look as though there were individual issues cropping up for some people. In fact, the existing version of Evernote for Android does not work at all, so everybody must have been having problems. I had some correspondence with Evernote support on an earlier version that kept crashing, and I am sure other Premiium users must have written. In addition, the Android version offers to send feedback, so there must be some idea of what is going wrong (although the app crashed when you click ok to send feedback). There has been an update to Evernote for Android during the night; let's see if this is now more stable. I have been fighting these problems for six months now.

Same here. Re.installed from the Amazon app store today, nothing works, keeps crashing. Have manually added all permissions (were not asked for during installation) but no improvement.

What is this forum for if no one ever answers? I clip things in Android about 20 times a day, and waiting half a minute for "setting up your new app" EVERY TIME is not acceptable. Am I missing a permission or something? Is there a fix for this that is nowhere to be found in this forum or elsewhere?

Hi, I have this problem too, because I have many collaged notes where the largest image is a screenshot or a photographed text. That defeats the assumption that the largest image is the most important picture. Anyway, the thumbnail doesn't have to be the most important picture at all - it should maybe be the most graphic, that still conveys information when shown as a small square. I guess I can resize the author portrait or whatever to make it huge/ square.