Problems, Errors and Bugs
Reporting bugs
- Best way of communicating
- Why don't you answer my e-mails?
- Will I receive e-mail notification?
- How many bugs are there in SuperMemo?
- Why e-mailed collection does not work?
Frequent trouble
- Some application lock SuperMemo files and cause errors
- Error message shows after changing themes in SuperMemo 18
- Why do I get Clipboard access prompt?
Windows 11
- I cannot import automatically from the web
- Does SuperMemo 18 work in Windows 11?
- Can I use Ctrl+Shift+A on Windows 11?
- Internet Explorer no longer available on Windows 11
- SM18 email features not working on Windows 11
- Problem with importing web pages in Windows 11
Error messages
See: Error messages
Design
Malware
MS Edge
Internet Explorer
- Dependence on Internet Explorer vs. the focus on Edge
- New problem with Internet Explorer in Windows 10
- Less dependent on Internet Explorer
- Using SuperMemo with other Internet browsers
- Internet Explorer run As Administrator cannot be used to import content to SuperMemo
- Does the Import web pages feature work with other browsers than Internet Explorer?
- Can SuperMemo work without Internet Explorer?
- A possible method for importing from Firefox and other browsers
- Buying SuperMemo in other browsers than Internet Explorer
- Add COM Components to enable scripting to automate importing from any web browser
Data safety
Deprecation/Aging
Editing
- Duplicate Element shortcut does not work
- Question box dissapeared
- Unruly rectangles in occlusion tests
- I deleted a component from many elements
- Why Ctrl+Alt+N does not paste anything from the clipboard? No article paste
- Alt+X does not work, occasionally
HTML problems
- Problems with longer articles (i.e. how to solve HTML problems)
- Error pasting HTML,Microsoft's mshtml.dll refuses to paste
- Keyboard problems in HTML (DeHTML-ize shortcut does not work)
- Error editing HTML
Synchronization
Lost data
- SuperMemo horror. Data lost!
- Information lost after an unexpected shutdown of the computer
- Horror - I lost 10 years of my work
- How can I restore my priority queue?
- Recovering lost timeline data (time.tim)
- Problems after renaming a collection
- Fatal errors that cannot be remedied with Repair collection
Freezing
- Neural review hangs up SuperMemo
- Some elements freeze SuperMemo while learning
- Editing local page makes SM hang
- SuperMemo hangs up on mail from MAILER-DAEMON
Community
Learning
- Premature "Nothing more to learn"
- Error: Cannot compute repetition outcomes
- Wrong element in repetition history
- Too long inter-repetition intervals after using Mercy
- Wrong last repetition date
Incremental video
Search
Templates
Unicode
Layouts
Pictures
- Pictures disappeared from my collection
- Pictures get mixed up
- Pictures jump between components?
- How to replace image component?
- Pasting image component results in resizing of all components
Sound and video
Import/Export
- Pictures display as x when importing from a site
- Ugly headers in Wikipedia
- Squares in Q&A files
- Errors when merging Advanced English with a Chinese collection
- Problems with import from SuperMemo 7
- Cannot export the lexicon
XML
Installation
- Problems with SuperMemo 15 at second run after installing
- Why SuperMemo does not remember the level?
Unlock/Registration/Password
Collection password
Privacy
Other/Older
- Swap problem
- French characters in SuperMemo
- Animated GIFs cause a flicker
- Greek font in Contents
- SuperMemo problems after hard reboot
- Main menu unavailable
- Cannot launch SM: Drive or network connection unavailable
- Memory allocation problem in SuperMemo
- How can I revert to the font used in SuperMemo from before a Microsoft update??
- All the font sizes change except the Question and Answer components
- SuperMemo deletes the text of a topic upon creating a cloze deletion
- SuperMemo reports my collection is locked
- Can not type polish letters when searching collection
- I can not run SuperMemo Power Words CD-ROM in professional or advanced mode
- I found no way of storing background colors for a template. How can i change the background of my existing cards?
- Strange behavior of an image component
- Undeletable registry member
- Keyboard shortcut Ctrl+F6
- Keyboard shortcut Ctrl+S
- Find Elements: Error: List index out of bounds (1)
- File corruption in HTML component
- Workload: Invalid argument to data encode
- Workload: Date outside the learning process: Jan 12, 2007
- Workload: Moving between Graph and Daily tabs looses current date slection
- Analysis: Work done statistics not dynamically updated during an open session of SM
- Analysis: Topic count incremented with remember of elements
- Keyboard shortcuts E, Q and A: Different behaviours
- Recovering from damage to files in a big collection
- Wrong interval in repetition history
- Error collecting item optimization data
- Make collection repairs more reliable
- OLE Error in SuperMemo
- Why is SM2004 slower?
- Cannot upgrade from Multimedia SuperMemo
- Tasklist sorting bug