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Org doesn't recognize my agenda file while the value of org-agenda-files show it is correctly aimed to where the file is

TLDR: I can't see my org agenda even though the file I added to it shows on org-agenda-files

My code in my init.el is the following (I don't know about elisp and I just started using emacs to use org-mode):

(require 'org)
(global-set-key "\C-cl" 'org-store-link)
(global-set-key "\C-ca" 'org-agenda)
(global-set-key "\C-cb" 'org-iswitchb)
(setq org-directory "~/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/Org/")
(setq org-agenda-files "~/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/Org/tareas.org")
(add-hook 'org-mode-hook 'org-indent-mode)

My Org files are on an icloud Drive which generates that weird path, this because I want to access them using the Beorg app on my iPhone.

Anyway, when I start emacs and press C-c a and press a to see my agenda it says the following on the echo: Non-existent agenda file ~/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/Org/#+STARTUP: hidestars

The value of org-agenda-files is: "~/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/Org/tareas.org"

I do have some code at the beginning of my tareas.org file that says #+STARTUP: hidestars. Which I don't know how it is causing the issue.

At the beginning I didn't have (require 'org) on my init.el which caused another error. I tried to fix it by adding it and changing my code a little bit. What ended up happening is that now I can't see my agenda while before I was able to see it, although I had to manually set it up every time I started emacs.

To further troubleshoot this issue I deleted from my tareas.org file (the one fed to my org agenda) that #+STARTUP: hidestars text and now the message is: Non-existent agenda file ~/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/Org/* Capture configure control

Which is the name of my first heading.

Solution

  • Have you tried removing the "(setq org-agenda-files ..." and adding the file with command org-agenda-file-to-front

    It might be that as you've set org-agenda-files to a specific file it assumes that the file contains list of agenda files.

    from https://orgmode.org/manual/Agenda-Files.html#DOCF90 :

    "If the value of that variable is not a list, but a single file name, then the list of agenda files in maintained in that external file."