William Stein

Yes, still an ugly error message. It is a meaningful and correct one though, so this is no longer a bug, but an idea about how to make things more...

I wonder - is this a side effect of maybe having reset or wiped something on the test server? That said, maybe the right fix is to implement fallback behavior...

Log from this happening again: ``` syncstrings -- failed to connect -- blob is gone; will retry 2021-02-04T10:38:14.184Z - debug: primus-api request object {"cmd":"synctable_channel","query":{"syncstrings":[{"string_id":"f9eaed66b1f2eba7f8fccfc871444d2 8a7c2ffba","project_id":"35542cec-cd3d-4fbc-bb48-4d2373dd5eab","path":".Deutschland.ipynb.sage-jupyter2","users":null,"last_snapshot":null,"snapshot_interva l":null,"save":null,"last_active":null,"init":null,"read_only":null,"last_file_change":null,"doctype":null,"archived":null,"settings":null}]},"options":[{"p ersistent":true}]} syncstrings -- failed...

- changing the priority to low. - tagging "kucalc" since this can only happen there - in practice in prod this never happens since it's not like google cloud storage...

Files now open when the blob is gone, and admins get an alert. We'll see what is really going on based on those alerts.

> Oh yes, it does! So, maybe that should be an optional flag... This is not our code; it's an upstream CodeMirror plugin -- https://codemirror.net/5/demo/search.html WORKAROUNDS: - Personally, I use...

This is very much still a bug, and even worse, since Format is a button on every code cell now!

Incidentally, with Sage, I think we should maybe consider supporting formatting anyways. We could run the python formatter and if it works, use it; if not, do nothing. A lot...

I was the only person that worked on this project, and I haven't had time to work on it for a while, so it's unlikely you'll get an answer here....

You're welcome. I hope I can contribute to it again someday. In the meantime, if you figure out anything useful, please feel free to comment here or create a PR...