Nextcloud sync: Very easy to cause data corruption with Nextcloud's rich text editor

[personalizedrefrigerator]

Nextcloud sync: Very easy to cause data corruption with Nextcloud's rich text editor

[laurent22]

Joplin should be able to handle characters escaped by Nextcloud

Ideally we won't do this because we shouldn't have to because that's a lot of complexity to go around someone else's bug.

It shouldn't be possible to edit Joplin sync files in Nextcloud's rich text editor UI (e.g. make them use a .yaml extension)

Actually this is too big a change probably, so let's not look into this for now.

I feel it's a shame that Nextcloud is so popular and at the same time they do stuff like automatically breaking user's files. We shouldn't have to work to fix up their mistakes.

[laurent22]

Maybe something to investigate: Can we set a flag on WebDAV to make all these files hidden by default? Maybe we only leave a README.md in there that says "don't change any of these files - it will result in corruption".

Or maybe we add such file anyway named "_IMPORTANT_READ_FIRST!!.md" so that it shows up at the top of the list

[laurent22]

I feel this bug should also be reported to Nextcloud - this is quite bad that they save a file that hasn't been changed, even worse that they actually auto-change it when saving.

[ghTravis]

I'm also experiencing this issue. Nearly every note is suffering from this type\_ problem. Has anyone created an issue on the nextcloud github or created a discussion there? Would be good to reference this issue in it also

[personalizedrefrigerator]

Has anyone created an issue on the nextcloud github or created a discussion there?

I don't think so — it could make sense to report the issue either in their server repository or their text repository (their forum seems to be down edit: it's working now!).

Related upstream issues:

• nextcloud/text#3477
• nextcloud/text#593
• nextcloud/server#29783
• https://help.nextcloud.com/t/text-app-modifies-text/164155

[ghTravis]

My nextcloud usecase is pretty limited to just Joplin at the moment, and I have no intention of editing files in the web console, so I am testing out this particular feature in case something is being weird with the rich text editor.

I executed the two occ commands to disable rich workspaces and rich text editing to see if it would fix things. It definitely makes it easier to fix the files after they have been formatted with type\_ in the nextcloud web console. I'll observe editing and adding files through Joplin to see if this actually does anything.

https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/latest/admin_manual/configuration_server/text_configuration.html