ttscoff/nv

Various misbehaviors in Mojave

Matthias-Ferber-Cantina opened this issue · 5 comments

Matthias-Ferber-Cantina commented

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 commented

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 commented

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.

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volt4ire commented

@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 commented

@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).

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jacobweber commented

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

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