Problems syncing pages after external updates

[Stuart Mackey]

If I directly edit a page in my drop box folder using an external editor and then attempt to sync it I get presented with the following message.

The ***** page had been deleted on Dropbox, and has now been removed from your wiki as well.

I have to go back and edit the file again then choose the sync option from the pages list to get my page to reappear within my account.

Our account is http://paperbag.wikipackit.com/

Thanks,

Stu

[Mark Beattie]

Hi Stu, thanks for posting.

I'm not able to reproduce this one - I just now edited a page externally and synced the changes from the sync button when viewing the page, and then did the same from the sync button in the pages index, and in both cases it worked well.

Are you sure it was editing the page externally that caused the deleted message? Did you rename the file when you edited it perchance? Have you emailed any content to that page?

Mark

[Stuart Mackey]

Hi Mark,

Thanks for the quick reply, we haven't emailed any content in or renamed the files. This is all pages that were created using an external editor and then synced into WikiPack.

I don't know if it makes any difference but we do not use the web site to create the markdown files, they are always added into dropbox externally and then synced up.

I will give it all another test and let you know.

Stu

[Stuart Mackey]

Another update with more info

I should also have added that we have are markdown files in a directory structure for example

Homepage.markdown

Projects/Proj1.markdown

Projects/Proj2.markdown

After another test I have discovered that if I edit Homepage.markdown everything works as I would expect.  It is the files in the subdirectories that are causing problems. I could flatten out the structure if I had to but ideally not.

Cheers,

Stu

[Mark Beattie]

Hi Stu, WikiPack doesn't currently support sub-folders I'm afraid. It is a wiki after all, so you can create hierarchical associations using the wiki links while keeping a flat file structure.

Sorry for not making that clearer during the signup process.

Regards,
Mark

[Stuart Mackey]

That explains it all.  I will change our structure and see how it works.  I didn't think that folders would work but I gave it a go and everything seemed OK.  The only problems that we encountered are the ones that prompted these message. It is a shame as it was a nice way of grouping the files together but it isn't the end of the world.

Thanks for all your help and keep up the good work, WikiPack is a great service.

Stu