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Evernote Confirms a Serious Bug Caused Data Loss For Some Mac Users (techcrunch.com)
Evernote has sent an email to users warning of a serious bug "in some versions of Evernote for Mac that can cause images and other attachments to be deleted from a note under specific conditions." The company claims only "a small number of people" are affected, but those who have received the email will need to update their Mac app as soon as possible. The glitch occurs in the September version of the software, and less frequently in the versions released since June. TechCrunch reports: In these applications, certain sequences of events can cause an image or other attachments to be deleted from notes without warning, but text is not affected. For example, the bug can be triggered by skimming quickly through a large number of notes, Evernote says. The email explains that once the company identified the problem, it worked quickly to implement a solution and attempted to restore all lost data. The issue was under discussion in Evernote's forums earlier this month. For heavy Evernote users, the bug could have a major impact. One user in the forums posted that they had 20,000 notes in their Evernote account, as part of their PhD research. Hundreds (or maybe even thousands) of their notes may have now become corrupted, according to their post. Unfortunately for some affected users, data recovery was not possible through automated means, the company's email stated. Instead, Evernote is advising those users who are missing attachments to use Evernote's note history feature in Evernote Premium to try to recover the missing data.
You're just storing your stuff on someone else's computer.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have backups to corrupt.
Don't Evernote have any backups?
That sounds dangerous.
Subtle Putin is subtle.
Yawn, does anyone really believe this shit that gets trotted out time and time again whenever anything happens ? .. but we didn't inhale"
They may as well say "Dunno how it happened, we were smoking weed at the time
Repeat after me: HOST YOUR OWN DAMN FILES. Put them on a good quality local server with ZFS backed storage. Set up automated snapshots. Then setup automated ZFS send/recv to another off-set (geographically diverse, so at least a few hundred miles away) server.
When files are borkt locally, just pull em out of your snapshots, or just entirely revert to a snapshot. Local server is borkt? Just pull the contents from the remote server. For an added bonus, sync to multiple remote locations, especially because co-location hosting and bandwidth is so damn cheap now.
Evernote, y u no revision?
Evernote is advising those users who are missing attachments to use Evernote's note history feature in Evernote Premium to try to recover the missing data.
Huh?
You want these people to buy a more expensive edition of your software – as the solution for your main product failing?
Tone-deaf.
I was using the free version on my phone, home computer, and work laptop for strickly personal. reasons. The now want me to pay for the pro version to continue to do that. I was days from recommending evernote as our company solution over slack, office 365, and google. They can blow me.
at least they are capable of admiting there's a bug and even fixing it. So what is all this fuss about?
After working for a year with Excel on a Mac, I am still waiting for one bug on that long annoying list of bugs to be solved by Microsoft.
Until then I just have to take for granted that my Excel crashes everytime it tries to check the online subscription without an internet connection,
trying to adjust the height of a row or just trying to open an ordinary CSV file.
Had this been a OneNote flaw, it would have read:
Microsoft has sent an email to users warning of a critical flaw in multiple version of Microsoft's OneNote that can cause a severe loss of data, the extent of which is not entirely known. Microsoft refuses to acknowledge the severity of this issue, claiming that only "a small number of people" are affected. Those who have received the email may be able to install an update to repair the flaw, but the efficacy of this "fix" has not been confirmed. Regardless of the "fix", the users data has been lost irrevocably. The glitch has been occurring for many months but this is the first response Microsoft has provided.
.... this will certainly help :)
So, Evernote has massive competition for Apple iOS/macOS Notes, Google Keep, MS OneNote, even DropBox paper.
So the thought seems to be, lets get rid of all these non-paying folks, lets concentrate on the much smaller group of paying folks. For the free tier, they've reduced the number of hosts you can access this from.
I personally have migrated all my notes away from Evernote to Apple Notes. macOS notes has added an import filter specifically for the Evernote XML export. Was pretty easy.