Annotations disappear

[aladmit]

This issue is suppose to be main issue on the problem of disappeared annotations. I'll use it to collect all info on this topic from all other issues to see a big picture of what's going on and to keep everyone up to date on fixes and workarounds.

[aladmit]

Annotation disappear when edit from different OS

• Title with space can't sync annotation cross MacOS/Windows vs IOS #89
  • (PDF) spaces in annotation-json.document.title
• pdf highlights disappeared again under Android #98
  • ??
• Android plugin handles annotations URIs differently than Mac/Windows, plus other bugs #155
  • (EPUB) Different url in annotation-json.document.link.href, annotation-json.uri, annotation-json.target.source. Windows/MacOS use app://obsidian.md/index.html?, Android uses http://localhost/?
• unable to see annotations cross-platform (android/windows) #189
  • duplicates 155
• "There are no annotations in this group" Losing annotations #265
  • no root cause in issue, but annotator used on PC(Windows?) and Android

How to fix

Manually find and replace urls/hrefs for preferred OS. Manually find and replace spaces in title.

Annotation json was corrupted

• annotations disappeared? #194
  • (PDF) "if there's even a single misformatted annotation, no annotations are recognized"
• Annotation are not shown in the document after annotation editing. #301
  • annotations were broken by aggressive md linter

How to fix

Delete all annotations and create them again from annotator.

File renamed or moved

• Respecify the location of the PDF #96
  • (PDF) old path to a file used in annotation-json.link.href, annotation-json.uri, annotation-json.target.source

How to fix

Manually find and replace old href and uri with new path.

Newlines in comments

• bug: annotation disappear #47
  • There is a comment that it's already fixed. Requires testing and closing issue if everything is okay.

[githublx893118804]

too least version to use annotator, version 1.2.7 is ok.

[diplomatech]

Annotations, highlights... everything disappears when making annotations inside an ePub book. However, when I opened the annotation note (that with annotation-target yaml) as markdown, the notes was there... But, when I switch to "Annotate" again, nothing is there...

[hsequeda]

Same, the annotations are there because when u change to Markdown mode u can see it, but doesn't appears in the annotation list.

[Davidb-2107]

Same, the annotations are there because when u change to Markdown mode u can see it, but doesn't appears in the annotation list.

Same problem for me

[JJDahlberg]

I'm new to commenting on GitHub so apologies in advance for any awkwardness in this comment. This is my first GitHub comment ever.

I experienced one of the problems mentioned, Annotations behaving fine until running Linter and then Annotations misbehaving and not showing anything in Annotator view.

I saved my .md file before, then I ran Linter, and then I saved the .md file after. Then I ran a compare (using a standalone compare tool called BeyondCompare) of the .md files from before Linter ran (all annotations ok) and after Linter ran (all annotations not ok). I have attached a Snippet of the compare findings in the Annotate sections from BeyondCompare and it shows that my config of Linter added a space between > and %%, it added an additional line with a >, etc...

I reviewed my configuration of Linter looking for settings that may have caused the changes to the .md files from running Linter. I trial and errored my way to get Lint settings changed so that breakage caused by Linter no longer occurred. I then double checked by starting with my original .md with working Annotations, running Linter (with adjusted configs), and then viewing the Linted .md with Annotation working. To hopefully simplify showing the Two Linter configuration changes that were causing my Annotations to break I have attached a Snippet of the Diff View (from Obsidian Git) for the data.json file (the one for Linter) which highlights that "blockquote-style" and "empty-line-around-code-fences" were the two Linter changes that I needed to make to fix my Annotate with Linter issues.

Hopefully this is helpful to both people experiencing this issue as well as the developers and contributors to Obsidian Annotator.