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 <samolog...@gmail.com> 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. > -- The Kafka Pandemic Please learn what misopathy is. https://thekafkapandemic.blogspot.com/2013/10/why-some-diseases-are-wronged.html
