On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Mark Hughes (Zim mailing list) <[email protected]> wrote: > I have been using Zim on two Windows machines and keeping the files in sync > without problems. Now I have switched one machine to Ubuntu/debian (Bodhi > 32bit non-pae distro). > > Copying a Zim Wiki from Windows 7 to Linux worked fine, but I'm having > problems when files are moved from Linux back to Windows 7. > > SUGGESTED DIAGNOSIS > I suspect that Zim tries to find a saved file for a reference, fails, > creates an empty virtual file. Perhaps Zim on Windows 7 reads the Linux > saved file and includes some control character in the name (e.g. looks for a > filename "SomeRef\n.txt" instead of "SomeRef.txt")? > > BEHAVIOUR > The reason I think this is that if I copy all the files from Linux to > Windows 7 (e.g. using SpiderOak file sync) and then open Zim on Windows 7, > the tree view behaves strangely, and suggests to me that when Zim loads some > .txt files it fails to find the .txt file corresponding some or all of the > references. > > Firstly is shows a limited tree - not all the subpages seem to be present. > The tree does however contain all the nodes, and more (!), but most are > invisible. The invisible nodes are revealed as I pass the mouse over them, > sometimes going invisible again depending on what I do. > > I can see that there are duplicate top level nodes/pages in the tree, some > with the correct subpages listed, others missing some or all subpages. One > node (referenced in Home) has a lot of sub pages, and appears three times in > the treeview. The first instance appears shows a lot of subpages, but each > is empty when selected (ie. purely virtual pages). This I suppose is because > Zim looked for the ".txt" file, did not find it, and assumed the file did > not exist. The file does exist, so I am guessing that the filename is not > matched for some reason because of the transfer from Linux to Windows. > > The filesystems show the same names, so I wonder if when Zim on Windows 7 > reads a reference in a file that was saved on Linux, it mistakenly adds "\n" > or "\n\0" or something into the filename because of the different EOL in > Linux. Just a guess!
File names are handled exactly the same. Only difference can be non-ascii characters if you have different file system encodings between the two systems. > If I edit one of the virtual pages in Zim, Zim will save over the file that > corresponds to that subpage. I can't however get the tree back to normal. Did you try running "zim --index" ? > It would be great to be able to move Wiki's between Linux and Windows. Hope > this helps achieve that at some point! Zim (should) fully that already. I use a lot of file syncing myself and I know others do as well. So assuming the issue is more specific to your setup. It might help if you detail how you sync the files: copy from a share drive, dropbox, rsync, ... Regards, Jaap _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
