gNote Ignoring Directory Sync After Fresh Reinstallation of Ubuntu

According to the good folks over at gnome, the default and only version of gnote available for Ubuntu 20.04 is gnote 3.36.0. And it is too old for them to provide support for, therefore the ubuntu team can address my current gnote issue:

I am using Gnote Version 3.36.0 on Ubuntu 20.04. I have a hybrid SSD/HHD machine with my home folder set as the hhd partition.

I just did a fresh install of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and updated ubuntu/grub to recognize my /home partition where all of my files settings are.

Upon re-installation of gnote the majority of my notes are missing. Gnote is only reading notes from the default location.

~/.local/share/gnote

And ignores all of the notes that I have at ~/Documents/gnotes.

The Note Directory Watcher and the Local Directory Sync Service plugins are both active, and in preferences gnote shows the location of my ~/Documents/gnotes folder, but still simply ignores the notes present in the directory.

I thought the issue may have been corrupt config files, so I used synaptic to completely remove gnote (all config files) and reinstall it. I reset the configuration to recognize my local directory of gnotes, but again gnote ignores the directory and will not sync.

Note: I have been looking for a way to install gnote 40rc or later on ubuntu 20.04 since I read that it fixes a lot of sync issues. However, I have not been successful. Can someone tell me how to either:

a.) fix my Gnote Version 3.36.0 to recognize & sync the notes that are present

or

b.) update my Gnote Version 3.36.0 to 40rc on ubuntu 20.04 so that I can successfully sync my notes.

thanks!

Solution 1:

I finally came up with a workaround.

I used the find command solution found here: cp recursive with specific file extension to copy all of my notes from the my local sync directory at ~/Documents/Gnote to my default gnote storage folder at ~/.local/share/gnote

find ~/Documents/Gnotes -name '*.note' -exec cp -nt ~/.local/share/gnote {} +

And then, to avoid this situation in the future, I used this nifty little bash script to convert all of my gnotes to plain text:

https://github.com/rhoconlinux/gnote-massive-export-to-txt

From there I simply copied the notes in my ~/NEXTCLOUD/Notes directory and now I can do away with qnotes and use NC and/or others apps like https://www.qownnotes.org/