Dave-in-Decatur

Oy, more food-fighting. @AllenLook, why not go ahead and name the names, instead of the usual passive-aggressive insults spread wide. (I like to know whether I'm being accused of something or not.) WRT alternative services, respectfully, there are several ongoing threads on that, which might offer a fuller space for discussion than this one, dedicated to Legacy-vs.-v.-10.

I'm not experiencing this, though I do sometimes go to the Notes list and pull down the screen (on Android) to make sure that a pending sync has happened. Can you say any more about the circumstances involved? E.g. are you out in the field, or on a strong Wi-Fi or mobile data connection? Any particular types of notes more likely to generate conflicts?

I agree that note history on mobile (Android in my case) would be really helpful, as would the ability to add/edit a note URL. Not a deal-breaker, and no shame involved, though it is kind of a pity not to have it. @PinkElephant since other note apps apparently can do this, I wonder if there is something specific to the Electron framework that makes it problematic for Evernote.

I notice that when v. 10.60.4 was installed, a couple of my settings got re-set to the default: under Notes, the ever-aggravating "Strikethrough completed checklist items" was turned on, and PDFs were set to display Single page instead of Title. I wish that updates would respect existing settings.

Thanks, @Dave Green, @Mike P, and @PinkElephant for the suggestions. Somewhat mysteriously, today it is working fine. There are no spaces in the filepath, and the slashes are backslashes (\). My computer restarted, so maybe that was what was needed for some system-level setting to get into place. All good.

This happens in v. 10.52 of the Android app with the list of tags (see the forum thread here). I haven't got access to v. 10.53 yet.

Thanks. I find, though, that when I use a link file:///C:\... I always get the message "The link to file "C:\..." cannot be opened on this device," even with "Always open external files checked."

Look for the other threads on this issue. Maybe fixed in the new release of v. 10.53.

For others who may wander in, the answer is in the duplicate posting in another forum:

You're responding to a post from almost 3 years ago. But for some detailed current info on problems with emails that are being addressed: and

When checkboxes were first introduced in v. 10 (if not earlier, actually), the underlying code produced bullets on systems that were not using the latest versions of Evernote. I think this persists today when checkboxes created in v. 10 are viewed in the Legacy (v. 6) or older Android (v. 8) apps. I'm not sure how the people you're sharing to are viewing the notes, but the bullets suggest that the sharing mechanism at some point passes through an older interpreter.

The perceived slowness of v. 10 probably has to do with the fact that it runs inside a framework (Electron), which adds to the overhead but allows it to run on multiple platforms without having to write and debug separate apps for each platform. (As I understand it, which is not perfectly.) But if a particular note is opening blank, that's a separate problem. I assume the content is still there as viewed in Legacy. Have you tried looking at it in the Web client, which is also v. 10 (https://www.evernote.com/client/web)? If it's a really long note, and was created before May of this year, v. 10 may need to update it to the new sync structure, which could take some time to display. Is it a text note, or are there images?

See this post in a different forum:

In the Web client v. 10.60.4, in the Settings under Notes, I find two checkboxes, unchecked by default: Always open external files Always open external applications Anybody know what these do?

What is the version number of the update?

Happy to be in the 10% that got the 10.60.4 upgrade in the Web client when I refreshed the browser tab. Also manually downloaded the Windows desktop app and installed it. Known errors that I experienced have been fixed. Great! Let's never do this again sometime, eh? 😄

If this is the "You do not have permission" but, it is supposedly fixed in the newest version, 10.60.4.

Just tested and an email arrived in less than a minute. Bonus: I refreshed the Web app in the process, and got v. 10.60.4!

This also works in the Web app, by refreshing the browser tab.

To each his own! We spent our time out in the country and watching wildlife. And some wild surf off Victor Harbor and Kangaroo Island.

Please note: I am not denying anyone else's bad experiences with Evernote in recent months. I am not saying everyone ought to feel the way I do, or that Evernote is perfect. I just want to offer a story about something that worked in a complex situation, to go alongside all the things that should have been easy but didn't work. In early July my wife and I took a trip from the USA to Australia. I'd been thinking about it for a year, because of a 3-day conference in Adelaide that I wanted to attend. There were complications due to some medical issues, but it became clear that there were compelling reasons for me to go to the conference, and for my wife to come along (because duh, when would we get to do this again?). Family and friends pointed out that if we were going to the other side of the globe, we ought to spend enough time to see some sights; and a friend younger than we are (not a small population) agreed to come along as a traveling companion. To plan and carry out this trip I needed to keep track of a variety of things: the conference itself, including its scheduling, meals, and the paper that I ended up contributing to it at the last minute; air travel; visas and other travel/security tasks; packing for winter weather in July; medical matters; lodging in Adelaide and elsewhere; ground transportation in Australia; sight-seeing. I coordinated it all in Evernote. I had 25 notes related to all of these matters spread out in several notebooks, all tagged with one tag "to find them all." By using a headnote with links to other primary notes, which had links to further notes, and navigating with backlinks, I was able to keep track of everything, to update information as needed, and to find information when I needed to refer to it. I created and updated notes on an older desktop computer, a laptop, and an Android phone. Once my paper was written, besides a printed copy I kept a copy of it in an Evernote. Airline itineraries and visas were stored there too. I was able to do necessary updates while in Australia, using Wi-Fi where it was available, or else the data plan I'd purchased from Verizon (which, for one month, cost as much as my Evernote subscription for a year). It wasn't flawless. I'm sure that during the introduction of the new syncing and Real-Time Editing in May I had problems with content loss and notes getting scrambled, and experienced the aggravation that anyone would as a result. Fortunately I don't think I had as many problems as some people did, and things did settle down by mid-June. Overall, it was a real success, and Evernote probably came in fourth or fifth among the reasons we had such a great, if exhausting, trip: our wonderful young friend and traveling companion; the kindness of strangers; our own good planning; what felt like divine intervention at some points; and Evernote. This leaves me hopeful that, despite the atrocious problems that do exist in current versions of the desktop, Web, and Android apps (I did all this before v. 10.59.5 arrived), Evernote can remain a highly functional tool, even in complex and less-than-ideal situations (e.g., airplane Wi-Fi).

My impression (no more than that) is that the extra Done click is to prevent accidentally re-assigning to the wrong notebook by a misplaced click. A few times doing that, and the Done would start to seem like a time-saver. (Maybe that never happens to you, but I am fairly fat fingered in such things.)

@nightjar, AFAIK you are the only person reporting this: The Reddit thread you linked does not contain any reports of it. (So, um, who's gaslighting whom?) This suggests that other people with free accounts are not experiencing this lockout (or else are just dealing with it by copying segments of a locked note to new, smaller notes). It makes me wonder whether there is something about this specific note. Or are you experiencing it with more than one note?

What @agsteele said. If your phone's version of Android was such that it could run v. 10 it would almost certainly already have it. But v. 10 is having lots of issues of its own just now, so I wouldn't hurry to update. You've already found the only solution (AFAIK) to the dead-note issue in Android v. 8: copy the content to a new note.