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Public bug reported:

I am using ubuntu 14.04 and tomboy 1.15.4. Over a period of time(since
2006) I have been upgrading ubuntu and tomboy notes and had accumulated
a large number of .note files-- some moved over from previous
installations of ubuntu as i learnt to use ubuntu and save the data.
Recently i tried to backup the notes to plain text or html and was not
successful as the application created some folders but stopped in
between creating some files/subfolders (for notebooks) or none at all--
giving an unknown error. So i copied all the .note files in
~/.local/share/tomboy to a single text file as backup. Then quit tomboy
notes and deleted all the .note files in the folder. After doing  a grep
search on the text file for <title> , i came across multiple notes with
the same name--which may be the cause of the inability to backup/export
to html or plain text--and was giving an unknown error. It could also be
the reason why tomboy notes crashes or closes unexpectedly. Now i am
painfully trying to rebuild the entire data as it was structured earlier
--hopefully a lot of junk will be cleaned up.

Why Tomboy notes is not doing strict checks during creation of new
node/note or during the process of replacing/changing the name of an old
node/note needs to be looked into. Due to multiple notes with the same
name, indexing fails and the program crashes. Also since the filename of
the .note files is not human friendly and has no correlation with the
title of the note, when previously saved .note files are merged into the
same directory as the new .note files, there is a possibility that same
title notes are introduced mistakenly without being noticed by the
application which could be causing the unexpected problems.

So there are 3 processes by which same title notes are coming into being 
1 During creation of new notes -because of not being able to cover all the possibilities--maybe unlikely
2 During updation/renaming of older notes during usual process of editing and use
3 during saving or backing up from previous versions or folders of different computers--synchronisation problems--or merging problems etc

** Affects: tomboy (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  tomboy notes creates duplicate notes with the same title

Status in “tomboy” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I am using ubuntu 14.04 and tomboy 1.15.4. Over a period of time(since
  2006) I have been upgrading ubuntu and tomboy notes and had
  accumulated a large number of .note files-- some moved over from
  previous installations of ubuntu as i learnt to use ubuntu and save
  the data. Recently i tried to backup the notes to plain text or html
  and was not successful as the application created some folders but
  stopped in between creating some files/subfolders (for notebooks) or
  none at all--giving an unknown error. So i copied all the .note files
  in ~/.local/share/tomboy to a single text file as backup. Then quit
  tomboy notes and deleted all the .note files in the folder. After
  doing  a grep search on the text file for <title> , i came across
  multiple notes with the same name--which may be the cause of the
  inability to backup/export to html or plain text--and was giving an
  unknown error. It could also be the reason why tomboy notes crashes or
  closes unexpectedly. Now i am painfully trying to rebuild the entire
  data as it was structured earlier--hopefully a lot of junk will be
  cleaned up.

  Why Tomboy notes is not doing strict checks during creation of new
  node/note or during the process of replacing/changing the name of an
  old node/note needs to be looked into. Due to multiple notes with the
  same name, indexing fails and the program crashes. Also since the
  filename of the .note files is not human friendly and has no
  correlation with the title of the note, when previously saved .note
  files are merged into the same directory as the new .note files, there
  is a possibility that same title notes are introduced mistakenly
  without being noticed by the application which could be causing the
  unexpected problems.

  So there are 3 processes by which same title notes are coming into being 
  1 During creation of new notes -because of not being able to cover all the possibilities--maybe unlikely
  2 During updation/renaming of older notes during usual process of editing and use
  3 during saving or backing up from previous versions or folders of different computers--synchronisation problems--or merging problems etc

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