Unable to create new file

[Craftidore]

My weekly note settings:

When I select the command "Open Weekly Note" this message appears

This message only appears after a weekly note has been created. However, the weekly note created when I originally select the command "Open Weekly Note" has the week # listed as 36, while the Weekly note settings claim it should be 37

If I delete the current weekly note, then run the command, a new note is created (but with the wrong week # as previously mentioned).
Furthermore, when I select the command "Open Next Weekly Note," provided a weekly note has already been created, will open the first weekly note I created (even if I'm not currently viewing a weekly note).

Daily Note and Monthly Note function as expected.
Daily Note Settings (through Periodic Notes, not through the core daily note pluggin):

Monthly Note Settings:

And, in the off chance that it is relevant, Calendar Note settings

Obsidian Version: v0.12.15
OS: Windows 10, current version as of September 15th, 2021
Hardware: 5 year old Microsoft Surfacebook

[Craftidore]

Problems ceased after latest update (Version 0.2.5)

[Craftidore]

Correction:
"Open Weekly Note" and "Open Next Weekly Note" now work as expected, but the note numbering is still inconsistent with what is shown in settings and I cannot create new weekly notes from the Calendar Pluggin.

[zachdaniel]

I'm experiencing this issue, "Unable to create new file" when I try to open the weekly note.

[daniloascione]

Same issue here.

I changed the name template and a new file was created but with the wrong file name: I changed "YYYY-MM_[CW]WW" to "YYYY-MM_[CW]WW_2" but "2022-01_CW03_2" was created instead of the correct "2022-01_CW04_2". The name preview in the plugin option window is correct.

If I click the "Open this week" button again, then it fails with same error (because it tries to create a file that already exists?)

[clolesen]

I had this exact same issue. When I used the WW format in periodic notes it used the week number minus 1 when creating the file name, and thus where unable to create the file when that file name already existed. It also used the week number minus 1 when formating note templates with {{date: WW}}. Like it knew it was week 7, when pushing the "open this week" button, which prompted the creation of a new file, but then used the week number 6 for file creation.

However, when I then installed the calendar plugin, everything worked fine, even with the calendar plugin turned off. As if it had overwritten some files that fixed the bug.

[jkrcma]

Thank you @clolesen! I've been having the exact same issue as described above, and by installing the Calendar plugin the problem magically disappeared and WW now refers to the correct (current) week number, in this exact case to week 11. Before the calendar plugin it pointed to week 10.

[jeremymturner]

I ran into this same problem. The docs point to moment.js for the formatting style (https://momentjs.com/docs/#/displaying/format/) and I noticed that my particular naming style was mixing ISO and non-ISO variables, e.g. 'gggg' and 'WW'. When I changed 'WW' to 'ww', I no longer have this issue.

I suspect that you either need to stick with all ISO or all non-ISO in the variable usage or else something gets confused.

[minchinweb]

I get this same message when I try to create a file that already exists. I'm running into this because the week number doesn't match the file it tries to create.

[cameronj86]

@jeremymturner's resolution worked for me. One quirky thing was that it was thrown off by the passed-through/escaped text and not the ISO-related text:

• gggg[ - Week ]w - Creates an error because the escaped text starts w/ a capital letter
• GGGG[ - Week ]W - Works as expected

[hovren]

I had issues with the week set wrong as well ("GGGG-W" converted to "2023-13" instead of the correct "2023-14". I installed the Calendar plugin, and at first it did not help, but then I checked the Calendar plugin config and changed "start of week" from Sunday to Monday and then it worked and created the note at "2023-14" as expected. For clarity: today is Monday.

[grooviekenn]

I'm coming across the same issue. Can anyone suggest how I can get the following to play nice: YYYY - [Q]QQ - [M]MM - [W]WW?

I've also tried gggg - [Q]QQ - [M]MM - [W]ww.

[TraceyC77]

I am experiencing the same error when trying to create a weekly note by clicking the week number in the calendar. The wrong week is selected. Today is Monday. It seems that using all ISO date formatting triggers the bug.

Steps to reproduce:

• Clicked on week 24 in the Calendar pane on the right. I was prompted to create the weekly note.
• This created the weekly note for week 23. Edited and saved. (Incorrectly named under 2024/2024-W23)
• Clicked on week 24 and was prompted to create the weekly note. The pop up has the wrong file name. (File 2024/2024-W23 does not exist. Would you like to create it?)
• Clicked Create
• Observed error "Unable to create new file".

If I click week 25 I am prompted to create the weekly note 2024/2024-W24.
The plugin is attempting to creating the note with a filename for the week prior to the one selected.

I tried changing from mixed format (YYYY/gggg-[W]WW) to ISO only (YYYY/GGGG-[W]WW) but that still triggers the bug.
I tried changing to non-ISO (yyyy/gggg-[W]ww) and that made the proposed file name match the week number.

So there are two issues:

• The plugin detects correctly that the file for the week selected does not exist when that is the case BUT the pop up shows the week prior to the one selected for the file name
• The plugin then attempts to create the file with the mismatched filename but cannot if the file already exists

[AnsgarLichter]

@jeremymturner's resolution worked for me as well - thanks!