Entries being written over / becoming copies

[graymayhem]

I love this app and use it multiple times per day.

I'm noticing that some of my entries, usually ones from the previous day but not the entry immediately prior, will be written over by a copy of a newer entry. This has happened so frequently that I'm unsure how to document it, and now and seems to be occurring with more frequency as time goes on.

For example this older entry that begins 'I'm sort of dreading..' was an entry about noticing one of my previous journals had disappeared, and this evening it became overwritten by a copy of the newer entry. The modified timestamp was what it should have been until I opened the entry to confirm it had been written over. Scrolling back through old journals, I'm noticing many of them have been written over in a similar manner. They are not always tagged null.

I don't have backups of my entries, so I'm not sure what other information I can provide that would be helpful to you. I was using the version before the most recent Markdown update with default settings.

[jan-mate]

I’m glad to hear you enjoy the app! I’m sorry you’re running into this issue—thanks for letting me know.

I haven’t encountered this issue myself yet, so I’m not sure how to reproduce it. I have a few ideas about what might be causing it—could you help me test them by providing the following details?

• Have you allowed location permission?
• Could you provide details about your device?
  • Phone model (or an estimate of its age and price if you’re unsure)
  • Android version

To help debug further:

1. Go to Settings → "VIEW OR EDIT ENTRIES JSON DIRECTLY".
2. Copy and paste an example of:
   • The overwritten entry
   • The newer entry that got copied over it.

You can anonymize the content, coordinates, timestamps, and tags—just note where fields are the same. In this example the first and third entry have the same content:

{
    "content": "A",
    "coords": "",
    "created": "2024-07-04T06:25:39.365",
    "last_coords": "",
    "modified": "2024-12-17T14:06:59.145",
    "tags": []
  },
  {
    "content": "B",
    "coords": "14.54537 15.455210",
    "created": "2024-10-14T17:04:40.483",
    "last_coords": "14.54537 15.455210",
    "modified": "2024-12-17T07:02:10.135",
    "tags": []
  },
  {
    "content": "A",
    "coords": "11.84537 26.455210",
    "created": "2024-09-11T17:07:19.941",
    "modified": "2024-12-17T06:25:02.661",
    "tags": []
  }

[garduini]

Hello, first of all thank you and bravo.
I am grateful you propose such a quality app for use to use freely.

I am experiencing the exact same issue.

I love your app, I have been using it for one week now and really it is valable for me but the copies are annoying and a little bit frightening because I am confused about deleting the wrong entry.

I will try to report as you mentionned in order to help you improve you app.

Thank you very much.
Geoffrey