Jefe99

I do the same thing every time...drag and drop publicity .pdfs into the import folder, usually one at a time, sometimes 2-3 depending on the project. Most actions get the expected result but a small but significant anomalous number freak out the app and start generating endless duplicates. The only way to stop is to close the app and empty the import folder. Unfortunately if I don't monitor EN at all times as I import, the duplicates can go completely off the chain. Most recently it had over an hour to generate duplicates before I noticed. If I could simply delete the duplicates I wouldn't be here, but at 50 a pop the deletion is still not complete several days later. I have analyzed the problematic .pdfs and see nothing that would seem to cause the problem. They come from different sources, have different layouts, different content. No apparent "issue" that should cause this. Data point: I just dragged and dropped the "problem" pdf that caused the most recent issue into import folder again. One copy of the note was generated as would normally be expected. No duplicates. That would seem to indicate the .pdf doc is not the issue. I didn't do anything differently. Of course, there have been at least 2 EN updates since the recent incident. Maybe 3.

Thank you for the responses. I originally posted in the forum because it looked like I wasn't getting support. Finally got a response and was told that this is a "known issue." I wonder why a known issue is not in the knowledge base. Or in a support created forum post as a heads up for users. Meanwhile, I am still deleting 1000s and 1000s of duplicate notes from one .pdf import. Fed. Up.

Does this happen for anyone else? I use the import folder functionality every day, like a watch folder. I drop .pdf files into the designated folder and they are imported as notes. Very handy, until Evernote freaks out and starts creating hundreds of copies of a note. I mean hundreds. Multiple hundreds. And since you can only delete 50 notes at a time (???) it is a massive waste of time to go through the list and delete the unnecessary copies. I have no idea why one pdf does this versus another .I see no pattern, but if you don't watch out very carefully, you can look up and find that Evernote has been creating the same duplicate note for hours. I have to keep the UI open and visible for the entire time I am using it, just to watch for this anomaly and catch it before the app floods my notebooks with extraneous duplicates. Of course, there is virtually no support to get a fix. Anyone else encounter this and have you found a solution? It makes the app almost unusable.