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Exporting and then opening a .grist file doesn't work correctly #4
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Thanks for reporting this @ruudschouten, will look into it. Which OS was this? In the meantime, you should be able to find Grist documents sitting on your filesystem as |
This was on Windows 10; Version 10.0.19045 Build 19045 |
Hi,
It might be linked with the fact that the documents have colliding or absent document id in the sqlite (like the home.sqlite for grist-core) |
@nasmi3 are you also using Windows? |
Dear Paul,
Yes, I am on windows 10 too. I haven't checked on other platforms.
Again thank you for your work on this project !
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Hi, I I tried to roll back to grist-electron-windows-0.1.8-x64.exe, and then the file opening function back to normal. |
This persists in version 1.1.3. There seems to be some internal (to the Reproduction steps
In step 4, you will get the On a quick check, I couldn't find a reference to the filename in the |
Hi @Anamon, the interaction between the Electron version of Grist and the file system is super primitive: grist-electron/ext/app/electron/main.ts Lines 188 to 200 in 04a8fc5
Basically, it is using a simple hack to adapt the server version of Grist (which has full control of where files are stored) to the desktop. The server version expects to have a little entry for each file in a database, so we make one to keep it happy. This could definitely be improved! |
Greetings. I'm seeing similar behavior in release 0.2.8 on Windows 10 when attempting to open a
It could import the very same file just fine, but of course that results in a new file in Grist serves me just fine in headless mode, so this is not a deal-breaker for me; but this could make it more difficult to sell Grist to folks who could not set up their own server but still require assurance that they could access their data for years to come (even if the cloud services went offline). |
Currently on version 0.2.1, and wanted to export a newly created document.
Exporting is done by opening the document, clicking
Share
>Download
.If I then try to import this exported .grist file, I get a warning popup which says:
If I instead double click the .grist file to open Grist automatically with this file, I get a different error:
Trying to enter recovery mode will show a toast message in the lower left stating
This also has a nice Report button, but when I click this I get another toast message, saying the report form isn't set up.
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