Evince annotations lost on save

Bug #1736583 reported by Jason Moore
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This bug affects 3 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
evince (Ubuntu)
Expired
High
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Bug Description

I used Evince to annotate a ~70 page PDF. Over a few hours I added a handful of annotations to each page. After every 5th page or so I would "Save a Copy" in a new file name (same filename on every save). When I finished editing the document I saved and noticed that the modified time was not updating on the file. When opening the copy, no annotations were present. I tried saving as different file names and the same thing occurred. Then, stupidly, I opened the original file and it closed the file I had open with the hundreds of annotations and now no files have the annotations. My computer is currently at this state. I would really like to be able to recover the annotations if they happen to be in a cache file somewhere. Secondly, this seems to be a bug.

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Jason Moore (moorepants) wrote :

This was using Evince 3.24.0 on Ubuntu 17.10.

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Jason Moore (moorepants) wrote :

Sorry, that was supposed to be Evince 3.24.0 on Ubuntu 17.04.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in evince (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Moritz K (klischat) wrote :

Also experienced this bug

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test it on a currently supported Ubuntu version. When you test it and it is still an issue, kindly upload the updated logs by running only once:
apport-collect 1736583

and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

Changed in evince (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → High
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for evince (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in evince (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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kinow (kinow) wrote :

Just had the same issue.

```
kinow@ranma:~$ uname -a
Linux ranma 5.4.0-113-generic #127-Ubuntu SMP Wed May 18 14:30:56 UTC 2022 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
kinow@ranma:~$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=20.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=focal
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS"
```

evince 3.36.10

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