circles and ellipses disappear upon restart

Bug #1633314 reported by Ray
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Bug Description

Version: 0.91
OS: Windows 10 Version 10.0.14393 Build 14393

Over the past few months I have been experiencing a major issue in Inkscape that needs to be fixed. This issue is sometimes, when there are a number of circles/ellipses in the document, these objects just disappear when I restart. Other issues associated with these include:

- These objects won't copy
- Once deleted, can't be undone

(I call these "dead objects" because they no longer exist as real objects.)

In the attached document example there were quite many circles and now they're all gone.

This one bug has turned my many hours of effort into a disaster and is forcing me to spend twice as much time on that.

And I can't believe this is the first time a bug like this has been reported. This bug needs to be fixed. Will that even be fixed in the next version?

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Ray (16ngr1) wrote :
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Ray (16ngr1)
description: updated
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Mc (mc...) wrote :

Might be a duplicate of https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1284409 but hard to tell with the information given (since the affected objects are no longer present)

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su_v (suv-lp) wrote :

Mc wrote:
> (since the affected objects are no longer present)

The objects seem to be still present (about 448 of them) - look e.g. at object with id 'circle4515-8-6' in the example file:

    <path
       style="opacity:1;fill:#ffffff;fill-opacity:1;stroke:none;stroke-width:1;stroke-linecap:butt;stroke-linejoin:miter;stroke-miterlimit:4;stroke-dasharray:none;stroke-dashoffset:9.60000038;stroke-opacity:1"
       id="circle4515-8-6"
       r="3"
       cy="636.75836"
       cx="-613.87347" />

This is a <path> element without path data 'd', but with (not applicable) attributes originating from a <circle> element (same applies to the other instances of <path> elements not rendered due to the same mismatch of element type and element attributes).

I do not know under which circumstances Inkscape >= 0.91 could possibly write such objects by itself [1], or whether some (third-party) SVG optimization (on save, or externally run) is in play.

[1] There was a known issue when support for writing and editing basic SVG shapes <ellipse> and <circle> was initially introduced, which at the time exposed itself in the XML editor mostly - IIRC the information in the saved SVG file was correct nevertheless:
https://sourceforge.net/p/inkscape/mailman/message/31489984/

tags: added: shape-editing
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su_v (suv-lp) wrote :

Updated version of manually "fixed" SVG file (missed two circles in the first one).

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