boardtc

Please keep us posted, good luck!!

On 1/11/2024 at 11:42 PM, PinkElephant said:

Different users can have a similar corruption. That may be the real bug to squeeze, but if you only notice it months later on exporting, it may be hard to find the root cause.

So several reports do confirm there likely is a problem, but they don’t confirm the problem is with the export routine.

In any case a contact with support is the next step, in case somebody doesn’t like the idea to reinstall.

Oh, BTW, support when finally reached will tell to a) update to the latest and b) reinstall with a fresh database. THIS you can have without waiting for 2-3 weeks.

Is there a way to "uncorrupt" the Evernote database (which works fine otherwise) so a clean export can be done?

1 hour ago, Timothy Austen said:

I have the same problem. I exported to an .enex file, which has thousands of notes, and hundreds of untitled notes.

• They are all plain text
• They have <title>Untitled Note</title>
• They have are made on different devices:
  • <source>mobile.android</source>
  • <source>desktop.win</source>
• They don't have special characters in them.

Hi, yes, it's a definite bug, nothing to do with corruption, it's been verified a number of times with different users now.

It's a bit of a farce trying to raise a bug:

@eric99 Do you think there's enough here for us to convert this into an official bug now?

A tough debugging issue.  I assumed you had access to the code, without that it's an impossible task 😞

Ok, I grepped my other 32 exported notebooks of 500Mb of stuff and found 36 Untitled Notes in 17 files, so it's far from a once off.

Interestingly, I got a comment in another forum that "webclips used to be exported to enex files with a title called "Untitled Note"."

24 minutes ago, eric99 said:

What do we learn from this?  The most probable conclusion is what john/T already suggested: the title contains hidden characters which were removed in the duplicated note. To prove that theory you could manually remove the title in the original note and type it again. Then export to check whether the exported title is still empty.

Ok, the notes was in the trash but I restored, renamed the title and exported and the .enx file contained the new file name.md. Looks like your theory proved. Strange one!

I guess there is no way to search Evernote for hidden characters?

@eric99, excellent debugging

1. Individual export produces Untitled note.md in enex file
2. Duplicate of note produces correct title.md

I can do that for these 2 notebooks but I would prefer not to have to check my other 30+ by hand, some with 100s of notes. Still not the end of the world with this work around and a bit of grafting. Many thanks.

Looking at the 3 titles in Evernote all plain ascii

• DIY Tips
• Banneton Cloth
• Soudough - billsblog

The first one mentioned was written by hand the 2 others have a TB link and a back reference link, I hand craft most but I think I may have done these 2 by sending the evernote email. But definitely not the first if we are looking for a pattern 😞

Searching TB I sent one message to Evernote in 2008 and that was it and it's not one of these 3!

 Sorry for the cross post.

8 minutes ago, Jon/t said:

I think in an enex file images are stored in base64 so they are really long strings hence the 54000 lines.

The key would be to count the number of <title> tags to see if they match the number of notes in the export or see if any <title></title> selections are empty.

I posted the problem note..... I'm not sure it gives any clues to why it's happening...

In the other notebook there is:

  <note>
    <title>Untitled Note</title>
    <created>20200315T141435Z</created>
    <updated>20200315T141748Z</updated>
    <note-attributes>
      <author>Me</author>
      <source>desktop.win</source>
      <source-url>mailbox:///C:/Users/Me/AppData/Roaming/Thunderbird/Profiles/h2lvkt11.default/Mail/Local%20Folders/Inbox?number=5193</source-url>
      <source-application>evernote.win32</source-application>
    </note-attributes>
    <content>
    </content>
  </note>

Thank you all very much! @Jon/T, brilliant suggestion.
I opened one exported .enex file in my text editor, counting <note>, <created> and <title> they were all 33, which was the number exported and imported. But one has the title "Untitled Note" (original title DIY Tips), the contents of the notes are 100%, just no title:

    <title>Untitled Note</title>
    <created>20190328T170508Z</created>
    <updated>20230505T222609Z</updated>
    <note-attributes>
      <author>Me</author>
    </note-attributes>
    <content>
    </content>
    <resource>
      <data encoding="base64"></data>
      <mime>image/png</mime>
      <width>225</width>
      <height>225</height>
      <resource-attributes>
        <file-name>image.png</file-name>
        <source-url></source-url>
      </resource-attributes>
    </resource>
  </note>

Looking at the 3 untitled notes (1 in this notebook) mentioned, 2 contain resources, e.g.:

![[./_resources/Untitled_Note.resources/image.png]]

[[./_resources/Untitled_Note.1.resources/nov 11 1.jpg]]<

but not the 3rd.

Evernote 10.60.4 on Windows 10 22H2. I am not importing into Evernote but importing with 2 separate utilities both gave the same untitled notes. I just did a reexport from Evernote and the same results were obtained. So the fault is definitely with the enex export if you wish to file a bug to improve the product as I can't.

Another reason to get out of dodge...

I don't pay for mine so looking at https://evernote.com/contact

it says "Evernote Personal, Professional, and Teams customers can also sign in and access additional support options"

otherwise the forums is it.

With the current windows app I exported 2 notebooks from Evernote with all notes having a title.

One of the notebooks had 14 notes and the other 49, when imported the first notebook had 2 Untitled notes and the 2nd 1. I redid the export and import and the same happened for the same notes. I could not see a pattern as to why those particular notes have a problem - it's only the title that had an issue.

It sounds like no one had got to the bottom of this, is there an open bug somewhere?

Thanks for that and all the education.

19 minutes ago, PinkElephant said:

The tip to add a tag with the notebook name is OK - but you need to go to each notebook and add the tag. You can as well go to the notebook and export the content, instead of tagging it first. It is possible, but I do not think it really makes a difference in the export strategy.

You are right, Thankfully I have under 50 notebooks so it's not the end of the world by any means. I might even do it now...

You do misquote me however!

17 minutes ago, PinkElephant said:

Why should they now listen to you, when in years of use you never considered subscribing anyhow ? 

1 hour ago, boardtc said:

Well after being an Evernote user since 2009, always free, I have to get out and wanted to move to another PKB. I have considered going to the paid version many times but the reviews are always so bad and the evernote programmers/team do not take the feedback on board.

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It depends - with legacy you can create a single ENEX file, with v10 it is one per notebook.

Thank very much for the information. However, I installed legacy Evernote_6.25.3.9348 on windows today and it only loaded my notes to 2018, so legacy is not relevant for an export. Legacy sucks.

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I hope you are aware that the note-notebook information is lost when exporting. So doing it in one file means all notes are one one big heap, without any notebooks.

I was not at all aware, that is a disaster 😒
So there is no export possible that retains the note-notebook information?

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Second I always ask what people want to do with these exported files ? Do you guys load them on to a stick, and have a drawer full of them ? Because for a backup it makes no sense. Export is made for other uses, it is not the method to run a backup.

Well after being an Evernote user since 2009, always free, I have to get out and wanted to move to another PKB. I have considered going to the paid version many times but the reviews are always so bad and the evernote programmers/team do not take the feedback on board.
Yarle looks for the enex files(s).
Once the export is done I had hoped to burn the enex files and delete my evernote account. 
But it is sounding like there might be no way out while retaining all your work....🤢

If I sign up to premium monthly, can I export all my notebooks to 1 enex per notebook in one go or is it still one notebook at a time like in the free version?

I want to avoid having to export 1 notebook at a time, So I uninstalled Evernote in Windows. Then I installed Evernote_6.25.3.9348 legacy and when I logged in it only showed my notes up t0 2018! When I uninstalled and reinstalled current all my recent notes are there.

@Max Mik Thank you, that allows you to edit the number and rest after an inserted image too! 🙂

In the current web version clicking on Notes or Notebook on the left sidebar will the show the total number of each under the respective heading in the right hand pane.

I just pasted in a markdown file and nothing was picked up still 🥵 How stupid was I to try again.

This open ticket for many multiple years is proof to long term users that the decision makers in the company do not care about adding what they consider niche features.

I still get the "deal" emails to sign up for pro, why would anyone do that?

Is anyone using a  tool that I can import all my Evernote stuff too and finally uninstall this software which has never lived up to it's potential.

20 hours ago, gazumped said:

Possibly because no-one reported that as an issue thus far. The web client is 'in development' so new and better versions should be out soon.  Meantime easy workarounds exist like using the installed desktop version,  or copy/ pasting to a new app as you already found.

No one reported? What about this thread? Are the company not involved with this board? The workarounds are not easy since the images do not copy from the web in my experience. One can't always use the desktop version as it can only be installed on one machine if not premium.