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Deleted Tokens Re-Appear

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This is a bug I have encountered in the past but never seen it actively happen. There's been times where I've opened a map and found tokens which I had previously deleted, but this time I saw it happen and found an odd way to recreate it. Opening the configuration of an NPC seems to cause it's token to re-appear on the map. The exact things I did were the following, should a step help copy the issue: I dragged the pathfinder 1e treant in from the compendium. I dragged a token image into the portrait section from my computer I dragged the treant NPC in from my journal, opened it's token settings, assigned HP as first bar, made it large, and assigned it as default token. I then duplicated this treant NPC and renamed the duplicate to Tree Animated, then deleted it's portrait and default token. I dragged a new token in for the animated tree portrait and saved. From my library I then dragged in the new token, opened it's settings and set it to represent the animated tree. I set HP and size like usual and updated default token. (I don't know if this bug still exists or not but I've found that if you delete the default token and then drag in from the journal, it gives you the white character icon instead of the image in the Portrait which makes changing the token on a duplicate require a few extra steps) Finally, because I don't plan on having this enemy on the map yet, I deleted the token from the map and set to modifying one of it's attacks. BUG: Upon opening the NPC's settings the deleted token re-appears on the map. I've attatched a gif to show the bug happening. I believe the gif only plays when clicked though.
Yeah - it happened to me last week (D&D 5e by Roll20 sheet.)  I had a PC token that I set up on screen, linked to the character sheet, then deleted the token.  A short bit of time later, the token reappeared, so I deleted it again.  It would keep reappearing after a short period of time regardless of how many times I deleted the token.  Eventually I just gave up and sent the token to the GM layer so it wouldn't interrupt the session. -Adam
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Gauss
Forum Champion
This is an older bug, related to the 'reappearing token' bug if I remember correctly.  It is basically the system is remembering the state in which the token was first set up.  If you drag a new token to the table and make it the default token for the character I *think* that was the solution. Then you can delete the old token and it should stay deleted.
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Unless I'm missing something very basic, the drag-default-delete method does not work. On last attempt, I made a low-level NPC with a default token with an image. I removed the token image, leaving it blank. To make a higher-level version, I duplicated the low-level NPC and edited the copy. The duplicated copy brings along a default token that points to low-level NPC, and the token brings along numbers of the three token bubbles but does not update their references. Updating the high-level NPC token to point to high-level sheet (for token macros) does not cause problems. Adding a new image to the high-level sheet does not cause problems. But the moment I add reference values to the token bubbles, things break. At this point, every time I change a value on the new token, it creates a new token, in this case blank with no image, that points to high-level token but has no reference values for the three bubbles. The new unwanted token always appears in the same spot. I could stop this behavior by removing the reference values from the default token, after which it no longer creates duplicates. Though this makes adding temporary modifiers to NPC actions somewhat annoying, TL;DR  The problem might be related to the way token reference values are stored? Edit 4 hours later: It's not about duplication. Even building something from scratch results in duplication after reference values are defined.