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Roger Searjeant

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  1. I have the same problem. I mostly use the browser application across three machines - work laptop, personal laptop (both Windows 10) and a Chromebook. However, I also have the legacy Evernote application installed on my personal laptop, because it is still the only way I can backup my Evernote database. (That's a topic all of its own). I suspect the problem may be related to using multiple clients across multiple machines - especially as one of those is the old Windows client. These machines are not all active at the same time: typically, in the evening I'll stop using the work laptop and a short time later I'll open the Chromebook lid to resume working on something in Evernote web. Later still I may open the personal laptop to do something else, possibly not even using Evernote on Windows, but it will be running because I want it to sync the database. Often when using the Chromebook I will see one or two duplicate notes created. I manually merge and clean up, but seeing the duplicates appear still makes me uncomfortable. This behaviour suggests Evernote still doesn't do a particularly good job of handling potentially conflicting updates from multiple clients. To be fair, this is not an easy problem to solve. To understand the general problem, see: About CRDTs • Conflict-free Replicated Data Types A quick search in the Evernote forum turned up 5 other topics discussing the same issue - there are probably more. All products in this space need to deal with conflicts and some (notably Google Docs) have effectively solved the problem, so it *can* be done. Notes are precious, so people are quite justified in being alarmed when they see the system creating duplicates. The very least Evernote should do is acknowledge officially that the problem exists and provide a help page for anxious users. But they need to fix this properly.
  2. I have the same need. Evernote support for backup / restore is very poor: anyone making a serious commitment to Evernote will be thinking about backups and DR and wondering how they're going to restore the last good backup of the tag hierarchy they've built, in the event of corruption / accidental deletion.
  3. And here. I am using the latest Evernote web application: v 10.8.4 web 229 Editor: v118.1.15148 Service: v1.28.1 In Google Chrome Version 87.0.4280.66 (Official Build) (64-bit) on Windows 10. Tag searches simply fail. If I click a tag, the note list is cleared and after a few seconds I see "Search failed. Try again later" in a red error message. I am losing my patience with this product.
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