i have confirmed that this bug occurs as follows.
archiving commands append to a buffer for the archive. they do not
save, revert, or kill that buffer. my shell workaround, to allow
archiving given completely unusably slow archiving, moved the archive
files [so that they would not be slow].
therefore there were no archives on disk. but a full buffer.
therefore, archiving appended to existing buffers that did not match
what was on disk. then saved. ergo duplicates.
suggested fix: kill the archive buffer before appending to it, if it
is marked as unmodified.
if it is not marked as unmodified, maybe it is ok to append? idk.
On 5/9/21, Samuel Wales wrote:
> when i do a bulk archive, it will sometimes put 2 copies
> entries into the archive file. it is more likely to occur
> if i am archiving more tasks. at times, it seems certain
> entries do this repeatably, but i am not sure.
>
> there are times when i think i have reset everything (git is
> clean, archives are moved out of teh way) but this still
> occurs. i cannot make an mwe but it seemed worth reporting.
> where is it getting the duplicates from? idk. it has to be
> either the source .org file or the newly created and written
> archive file. idk if there are any caches or text
> properties or some hidden stuff in the agenda. but i can
> tell you that there have been times when i experimented with
> not cleaning everything and the duplicates increased. each
> run would create a new duplicate of certain entries.
>
> btw i have been trying to archive tasks to files for a year
> now. it is too slow for me. so i hit on the idea of moving
> archives out of the way, then archiving a little at a time
> to new archive files, then using the shell to append the new
> archived entries to the old archive files, then moving the
> old archive files back. thus, this isn't an issue of big
> archive files.
>
> wish i could provide more for you or even figure out
> debugging but i cannot; just hope it will ring bells.
>
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