Yesterday I restarted my computer as one does and when I went to reopen deepdwn the directory tree with the folder content is both not showing up but is also not filtering properly. I can’t change from the document that I’m in currently though it works perfectly fine. I’ve checked both on the windows explorer level, in VSC, and within deepdwn trying different folders & filters.

My only thought is that this has something to do with the fact the folder in question is stored on OneDrive possibly?

Still on 0.33.0

Oh no!

I haven’t seen that before! Could you try:

• Removing your current notes folder from within Deepdwn (Right click on it in the folder tree and select “Remove”)
• Disable watch for file changes in Preferences > Advanced > Watch for File Changes > Select “None”
• Exit Deepdwn
• Reopen Deepdwn
• Add your folder again

And let me know if that fixes it, or changes what you’re seeing. It’s obviously not behaving correctly here

Can do! So I tried out the process you suggested. I figured it would be more helpful via video than a series of screenshots. Either way removing the folder, disabling File Changing, and then quitting and reading the folder did not seem to have any effect at all.

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I also just cause I wanted to double-check that it’s not OneDrive I copied the same folder to my desktop and had the same results. Oddly enough when I made a whole new empty folder on my desktop and then tried to open a bunch of new files in Deepdwn same thing happened. Figured I’d get ahead of the troubleshooting curve by checking.

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Well, I’ve also tried uninstalling and redownloading from itch and still the same deal. IDK how I broke it but I think I might have broken it.

Thank you for the videos!

I’m assuming you’re running into some kind of error that isn’t visible (and unfortunately, will not be logged anywhere currently either).

Could you try:

• Closing Deepdwn
• Rename your user data directory: On Windows, it will be in
  %appdata%/Deepdwn
  You could rename it to Deepdwn-old or something.
• Reopen Deepdwn
• Select your notes folder when prompted

If that doesn’t fix it, and you have the patience to keep poking at this, could you try:

• Remove your current folder again
• Exit Deepdwn
• Reopen Deepdwn
• Select an empty folder somewhere else on your machine (not your current notes folder)
• Copy some files and/or folders from your notes there

With watch for changes disabled, you’d need to manually refresh your file list. It’s the small “Refresh” icon next to the word “Folder” at the top of the folder list in the sidebar.

That might tell me whether some specific file or files (or maybe some hidden file that Deepdwn ought to be ignoring) is causing grief here.

So I’ve got good news and bad news. The first suggestion of renaming the data file didn’t SEEM to do anything that I could tell because it still didn’t work. But I wasn’t sure if I renamed the right file? However the good news is Creating an empty folder and then copying my previous .md files into it seems to work, as in they show up in the file directory within Deepdwn. However the bad news is I copied some nested folders and while they show up in the file directory in the folder directory even though it has the twirl carrot for expand folders there doesn’t seem to be anything there. Also even when I removed the folder in question the files still show up in deepdwn in both the file directory and in the editor.

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Thanks again for the video!

The folder to rename is the whole deepdwn folder in %appdata%, so you’d be renaming C:\Users\YourName\AppData\Roaming\Deepdwn to C:\Users\YourName\AppData\Roaming\DeepdwnBackup (or similar).

I’m not confident that would fix it, but it’s worth a shot in case something is corrupted. I’m working on adding some logging that ought to help if the issue is some kind of error while reading your files.

Okay so I think I know whats setting the bug off. There’s something in my MARCH folder that it doesn’t like.

Once I renamed the whole deepdwn folder it came back so then I started testing when exactly it breaks. Deepdwn - 12 March 2022 - Troubleshooting - 2.2

To check that it was the March folder I put everything but that folder back and it seemed again to still be fine and as intended. Deepdwn - 12 March 2022 - Troubleshooting - 2.3

Then I tried going through the .md in the March folder to figure out what the heck broke Deepdwn - 12 March 2022 - Troubleshooting - 2.4

I’m 90% sure its one of the files from the 10th. I thought for a moment that it was the one marked phone but I realized it can’t be because the whole reason that file happens was that this was happening so I opened my phones text editor. I’m gonna go investigate whatever in my “20220310.md” and figure out what makes it different because its fine in VSCode Deepdwn - 12 March 2022 - Troubleshooting - 2.5

Hope these videos help

For a hot second, I thought I figured it out. I thought that possibly because my .md head text had new elements that maybe deepdwn doesn’t support it was breaking things.

However, a couple of tests later shows that wasn’t it but I think I’m close.

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