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How renames, moves and deletes sync in FUTO Notes

Renames, moves and deletes sync like edits: your other devices make the same change, and a note that is open on another device follows its new name. A delete removes the note on every device.

Renaming a note

Other devices show the note under its new name. If it is open in the editor there, the editor follows it.

The rename is uploaded as a new note plus a delete of the old one. The receiving devices see a note disappear and a note with identical text appear, and show that as a rename. This matters in one case: another device edits the note before it receives the rename. The edit beats the delete, so you end up with two notes:

  • the new name, with the text as it was when you renamed it
  • the old name, with the other device’s edits

Copy the edits into the renamed note and delete the old one.

Moving a note to another folder

Moving a note keeps its identity, because the file name and text stay the same. It syncs as a move, and edits made on another device in the meantime merge into it the usual way. See Sync conflicts.

If a note is moved and edited before the next sync, for example by another app while FUTO Notes was closed, it syncs as a delete and a new note in the new folder. The other devices end up with the same result, but an editor that had the note open there treats it as deleted instead of following it.

Renaming or moving a folder

Renaming or moving a folder moves every note and image inside it, and each one syncs as its own move, because a folder is part of each note’s path rather than a separate item.

Because the folder path is encrypted inside each file, every moved note and image is uploaded again. A folder full of large images can take a while to reach your other devices.

Deleting a note

A delete syncs to every device.

  • On desktop, a note you delete in the app goes to the operating system’s trash on that computer, where the folder supports it. The confirmation dialog says when it can’t: “This deletes the file for good — it does not go to the trash.”
  • A delete that arrives from another device removes the file directly, on every platform. It does not go to the trash.

If you have a note open with unsaved changes when another device deletes it, your draft stays open, and saving it brings the note back. The desktop and iOS apps say “Open note was deleted; keeping local draft”. Android says “This note was deleted elsewhere. Your draft is still open.”

Deleting a folder

Deleting a folder deletes every note and image in it, and each delete syncs to your other devices.

When a delete and an edit collide

The edit wins. If one device deletes a note while another edits it, the note comes back on every device with the edits, including on the device that deleted it. If the edit was still being saved when the delete arrived, the edited text is kept as a copy named like Groceries (conflict 01a0cd10).md.

Changes made outside the app

Sync looks at the notes folder, not at what you did in the app, so renames, moves and deletes made in a file manager or another app sync too.

  • Moving a file to another folder with the same file name syncs as a move.
  • Renaming a file syncs as a delete and a new note. Other devices still show it as a rename, as long as the text didn’t change in the same sync.

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