Nv: Various misbehaviors in Mojave

[Matthias-Ferber-Cantina]

I'm seeing a number of strange behaviors since I upgraded to Mojave, more or less. (I've turned on Full Disk Access for nvALT already.) Is anybody else seeing any of these?

• At startup, neither the main window nor the preview is visible even though the app is foregrounded. I have to open it from the Window menu.
• When the main window appears, it's empty. I have to press a key to start a search before the notes are shown.
• The assigned hotkey is not working. (EDIT: it started working after I set it again, using the same key combination.)
• The Bookmarks menu is broken: it just shows the placeholder grayed-out "Item".
• When I delete a note, in the confirmation prompt, neither the Delete nor Cancel button dismisses the prompt, and I have to quit the app to continue. (It does do the deletion if I click Delete, though.)

I've scanned the list of issues and haven't seen anything similar — apologies if I missed something though.

[Matthias-Ferber-Cantina]

Closing this issue. It turned out to be caused by some kind of corruption in the preferences file; when I located the right file and deleted it, nvALT went back to normal.

[jacobweber]

Same exact things happened to me. I noticed that in the bad preferences file, the Bookmarks section had an extra empty dict at the end:

    <key>Bookmarks</key>
    <array>
        <dict>
            <key>NoteUUIDString</key>
            <string>A7ACD798-8899-40BD-9A9B-64F94DE0BC18</string>
            <key>SearchString</key>
            <string></string>
        </dict>
        <dict>
            <key>NoteUUIDString</key>
            <string>63E5AF7D-AB95-4756-831D-5A6C8B45DC85</string>
            <key>SearchString</key>
            <string></string>
        </dict>
        <dict>
            <key>NoteUUIDString</key>
            <string>0762DA2D-9114-41B4-BE91-58DDF1171FDB</string>
            <key>SearchString</key>
            <string></string>
        </dict>
        <dict/>
    </array>

Removing the empty dict fixed it.

[volt4ire]

@Matthias-Ferber-Cantina @jacobweber do you know where the preference file you mention is located? I'm having the same issue but can't find an nvalt preference file for it with that syntax. Thanks!

[Matthias-Ferber-Cantina]

@volt4ire I'm away from home without my laptop today, but I'm making a note to get back to you when I get home tomorrow, if@jacobweber hasn't come through yet. I think it was inside the ~/Library/Containers hierarchy (or whatever the correct path is to the Containers directory).

[jacobweber]

@volt4ire @Matthias-Ferber-Cantina Looks like it's ~/Library/Preferences/net.elasticthreads.nv.plist.