Can't acces my files

[jcuel]

Hello Team,

Problem Description:
Simply cannot see the content of files under encrypted forlder, files under normal folder work fine.

Steps to reproduce:

• Install x64 Windows Release (current)
• Create 7 Folders (normal folders) with FileSystem Storage (C:\Users<myuser>\My Notes<folder_name>
• Created Folder "Serious", set password and UTF-8 format, also selected FILESYSTEM storage ("C:\Users<myuser>\My Notes\Serious")
• Created a Sample TO-Do List on a normal folder
• Created 3 Notes on Serious folder
• Saved Such Notes.
• Closed the App
• Opened The App, navigated to example To-Do List, Showed up empty To-Do
• Clicked to Switch from White/Black theme
• The To-Do showed up.
• Opened Clipboard button ,it works and shows lines of data copied recentrly.
• Opened to Folder "Serious", it shows the files I created (txt plain files) but when clicking on them, the files won't appear
• Played with the Theme Button, but nothing changed.
• Opened Clipboard. Stoped showing up.

Aditional Notes:

• Files tested and they are present on PATH.
• Content of folder is currently 3 TXT Files, and 1 "METADATA.JSON" file which contains an ID value and the path of the 1st file created on the folder
• Copied some of the files to a different folder and tryed to rename them as ZIP, used 7-ZIP to open the file and input the right password, with result of wrong password.

[jcuel]

@Ogefest I don't have time right now to debug this myself.
Do you think you'd be able to take a look at the scenario? Or should I deprioritize it and submit an attempted repair scenario or a workaround in the next 2 months frame or so?
It's not big deal for me, but seems quite a crittical bug, as someone else may try to encrypt critical info and run into the same scenario...

[Ogefest]

hello @jcuel

thank you for reporting this, yep, seems like serious problem and I'll handle this, probably on the weekend.

[Ogefest]

I was tried to reproduce the issue today and I'm stuck, the only way this could be happen that I see now is when you messed up with folder paths and somehow use the same folder for encrypted and not encrypted notes. In that case Notepack may try to open *.txt file as plain text but it's encrypted zip with binary content so do nothing (probably throw some exception in background)

Could you double check if it's not your case?

After this issue I realized that keeping regular extension but background with encrypted zip it wasn't good idea, in some cases make hard to realize about file types and how to handle them.

For sure files are possible to unzip with 7zip using the same password like in Notepack, this was one of most important things for me, Notepack will not lock you with app, you can always using other tools have your notes are regular files.

[Ogefest]

and could you start application from console? Notepack will print some exceptions if occur during opening those files, this also may be helpful for investigation.