Boostnote: Notes with identical titles overwrite during export of folder

Created on 23 Oct 2019 · 9Comments · Source: BoostIO/Boostnote

Current behaviour

Currently, notes in a folder containing the same title are being overwritten in the exported output with the operation "Export Folder -> Export as md".

Expected behaviour

All notes in a folder are exported as Markdown.

Steps to reproduce

create three notes in the same folder
choose Export Folder -> Export as md
only one out of three notes are created in the export location

MNWE used to illustrates the issue: (3 notes)

# Markdown Note to Export

1st note.


# Markdown Note to Export

2nd note.


# Markdown Note to Export

3rd note.

Important: Note that all 3 notes have the same title.

Environment

Version : 0.11.12
Version : 0.13.0
OS Version and name : 16.04 Ubuntu

bug level 1

Source

arcturus140

All 9 comments

one could, additionally, validate the export and create a user notification: #3306. (I closed it for now but could be reopened on interest).

arcturus140 on 23 Oct 2019

We could export duplicate named files with _(1) appended and increment if we find more.

I like the idea of #3306! I can't think of a reason that we don't want such a warning.

Flexo013 on 23 Oct 2019

👍1

We could export duplicate named files with _(1) appended and increment if we find more.

Boostnote already has functions defined that implement that behaviour.

arcturus140 on 23 Oct 2019

Nice! Then fixing this export overwrite problem should be fairly simple.

Flexo013 on 23 Oct 2019

We could export duplicate named files with _(1) appended and increment if we find more.

Boostnote already has functions defined that implement that behaviour.

@arcturus140 , where is the function?
I tried to find the function in Boostnote program operation and code, but I couldn't.
I hope to contribute to this issue.
Would you mind if you let me know where it is?
If you can't find it too, I will make another function or import other opensource.
Thanks 👍