1000's of lists beginning "[list:" have been created... not by my!

Hi

I noticed a day or two ago that over 7000 spurious lists have appeared in my account, the list names all begin with “[list:”. I did not knowingly created these. Either the cat sat on the keyboard or there is a bug. I would be grateful if you could take a look and suggest how this might have been caused.

Also, the system is not letting my delete them all in one go, the web page just hangs, I suspect I am asking it to do too much in one go. I would therefore be grateful if you could please do this centrally. Just the lists beginning “[list:”

I use MS Edge.

Thanks

Oli

Hello Oli,

It is related to the “dump - bike, microwave” list you created on Nov 29. Could you recall how did you create it? It is definitely some glitch, we will take a closer look into the logs.

We will remove them but we’ll try to figure out how did they appear first.

Thanks,
KIR

Hi KIR

Thanks for responding, appreciated.

It could well be related to “dump - bike, microwave”. However, I do not think I would have set that up as a list, it would have been a task.

I vaguely recall try to move a task, and I think it was this one, from one list (“work”, I think) to another (“home”, most likely). That might have triggered something?

Thanks

Oli

Hello Oli,

I’ve removed the extra lists. It looks like the problem is related to the feature which extracts a list from a list, with ‘xx’ keyboard shortcut. Looks like something went wrong, I’m investigating, but I have found the problem in the logs.

Sorry for the problem and thanks for writing us about it.

Kind regards,
KIR

Hello again,

A bit a silly question - could it be that ‘x’ key on your keyboard got stuck that time? Funny, but that would explain what happened with your lists, as ‘xx’ keyboard shortcut extracts a list from a list item.

Kind regards,
KIR

… and many thanks for clearing out the extra lists.

Thank you

Oli

Hello KIR

Apologies for slow response.

All my X keys are fine. However, I have a cat that sometimes likes to sleep on my keyboards, so that is a possibility!

Many thanks

Oli

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