scrod/nv — Issue #286: Simplenote Sync Error
Author: iamnoskcaj
Created: 2011-12-01 18:10:19+00:00
State: open

Hello there, longtime fan and user of Notation Velocity. It's been my go-to note-taking app for so long, I can hardly remember a time without it. I would have paid you ten times over if you accepted donations or payments ;) I can't praise NV enough.

Long story short, NV syncing hasn't worked with simplenote since Nov 15 for me. I'm running the latest Version 2.0 β5 (8) and have a premium simplenote account.

In Notational Velocity preference, my simplenote preferences have a green light next to my username and password, but syncing isn't working. I also get a little triangle with an exclamation point at the top right of the NV window, and when I click on it, the following message appears, "Simplenote Error: bad request" (with a "sync now" option, that doesn't work).
![NV Sync Error with Simplenote](http://f.cl.ly/items/2W250u1g3Q3T0a1T2h0P/nv-simplenote-sync-error.jpg)

I looked at the Console logs, and it appears that the NV Fetcher is getting an API response back from simple-note.appspot.com saying "returned bad request".
![NV Sync Error with Simplenote Console Log](http://f.cl.ly/items/3o1O1k2z2Q2G1S3u2w10/nv-sync-error-console-log.jpg)

I tried trashing my NV preferences, and reconfiguring it, but that didn't work (and some of the settings actually remained. I think that's because you save some of the preferences in the notes/settings file in ~/Library/Application Support/Notational Velocity ? Regardless, I'm stuck and I was hoping someone had some advice to give. I'm in sync hell, and desperately need my devices to be synced up :)

Cheers!
Jackson