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mitra

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  1. That's a complete incorrect statement about "Bugs tend to affect most users". Bugs that affect most users get fixed, the ones that are left are often edge cases, for example part (but not all) of this bug seems to apply to web captures that contain very specific content ']]' which Evernote appears to be failing to escape properly when writing the XML (ENEX) file. A backup you can't read back is a fairly useless backup - except for migrating to another platform (and my Evernote backups are readable by Obsidian's importer for example). You are probably correct about contacting Support, I've had bugs escalated before by senior people I knew at Evernote, but they all appear to have left now (another reason I was worried about its stability).
  2. @Gazumped - " not surprising that a standard viewer dislikes some content", yes you'd be correct if I was expecting to read the Evernote content, but the .enex is XML meaning that first you have the standard XML format, then within that you have evernote specific tags. Its the basic XML format that is broken. As you also rightly say, the failure of Evernote to import its own exported files is even more of a red flag, any .enex that a current Evernote exports, it should be able to re-import unless there is something else really wrong. This bug is ironic, because I've been using Evernote since 2010, and many of the company's early team were friends and former colleagues, I was actually doing this export because the large number of Evernote bugs I've been seeing lately make me wonder about its longterm stability. (My offline Evernote is missing a bunch of notes that are on the online one; and the issue with emptying the trash; are just a couple I've hit this week in what used to be a rock steady pair of apps (Desktop and mobile) that I could rely on).
  3. Evernote has a lot of problems importing its own exports. Some attempts at importing freshly exported .enex files just fail silently, others put up a message about failing to import , while others get part way through then complain (at the same message count each time). Opening those .enex files in an XML validator (e.g. Aquaemacs) throws up problems, for example if the note contained an ']]' the exported XML is always flagged as invalid, but other validation fails are harder to figure out. The worrying thing is not having Evernote backups, and with the other problems I'm seeing with Evernote recently that concerns me !
  4. There seem to be numerous issues with the trash. Evernote reports it cannot do so. If I try permanantly deleting messages individually or in groups, most works, but there are a lot that it refuses to remove. Similar, but different problem on the App (iOS) which has a completely different set of messages in its trash, pretends to empty the trash, but when you quite and reenter they are all still there. This seems to be one of a number of problems with Evernote I'm seeing recently - is the company in trouble?
  5. Sometime (I think recently) Evernote started playing URLs in its own browser, it doesn't give any choice about it, and not even a way to copy the link and manually select Safari. Unfortunately its not a very good browser, for example trying to play a youtube video from a link, it won't go full-screen, and won't switch to the youtube app and I don't think its getting passwords etc which are in Safari. This is really bad .... a big use for me with Evernote is things like watch-lists, for example I copy notes to Evernote on the desktop and then when I have time watch on my iPad , none of that works any more :-(
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