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interface being pushed upwards, possibly bc of Dropbox

A topic by geno7 created Jun 19, 2022 Views: 165 Replies: 4
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Hey, first of all gotta say deepdwn is a great app and it's become like the main thing I use for writing. comic and video scripts, lyrics, even just random ideas for planning stuff out. I've def become addicted to the interface.

Anyhow, there seems to be some kind of strange graphical bug that will happen every so often, usually just when I'm in the middle of typing stuff out.

I've blurred out my text and file names for privacy. the main focus is like, it seems like some kind of notfication modal pops up above the main editor view, but it shows up underneath the top bar so it's too obscured for me to read it, and when it pops up the entire interface seems to get like, pushed upwards, leaving an empty grey block at the bottom.

By hold clicking and moving my mouse over the area where the modal pops up, I've managed to highlight and copy the text in it that I can't see because it's behind the top bar -

"This file has been changed by another application, and you have unsaved changes.

You can save now to keep your current edits, or you can reload to adopt the other version instead"

And I do have Autosave turned on, so if I had to guess it's some sort of bug with the autosave feature. also, since the file I'm editing is in a Dropbox folder, it may have something to do with it reacting unfavorably to the file syncing system in Dropbox. Though I'm not sure why it would push the interface up like that. 

In my experience, clicking the un-obscured part of where I assume the "yes" button would be seems to fix the bug and put the interface back to normal, but if you go to File > Save the modal just goes away and the interface stays pushed upwards like that, so I have to close and reopen the program to get it to work.

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Thanks for the report!

I haven’t seen that personally, or heard reports about it, but most people probably don’t experience those conflicts so that’s not totally unexpected.

Here’s how that ought to appear (ideally): Deepdwn screenshot with file conflict modal at the top of the document

What version of Deepdwn are you using? What operating system + version?

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Oh sorry. I'm using the latest version, and this is on Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC

Something I should mention is that like, sometimes the modal will pull up fine for me and I'll see it normally, the way your screenshot looks. but sometimes it'll do the weird pushing up thing, and I'm not totally sure why it does that

I’m not sure yet either. I’ve been able to reproduce it a couple of times (out of many). I’m working on a fix for it.

The other issue is that you’re getting them in the first place when it sounds like you shouldn’t have incoming conflict changes.

Does it only occur when using dropbox? Are you using any non-standard dropbox settings that may affect the way that your changes are saved or updated?

You might also try using the ‘polling’ option for checking file updates in Deepdwn’s advanced settings if you aren’t already. It’s a bit less efficient, but may help with this specific issue for you.