From a1bda416468378e1a4396b372213e184060f943b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andras Schmelczer <andras@schmelczer.dev>
Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2025 11:44:57 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Always fetch the right document version content

---
 .../sync-client/src/services/sync-service.ts  | 38 +++++++++++++++++++
 .../sync-operations/unrestricted-syncer.ts    | 12 +++---
 2 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/frontend/sync-client/src/services/sync-service.ts b/frontend/sync-client/src/services/sync-service.ts
index ee67630a..7d031c2e 100644
--- a/frontend/sync-client/src/services/sync-service.ts
+++ b/frontend/sync-client/src/services/sync-service.ts
@@ -276,6 +276,44 @@ export class SyncService {
 		});
 	}
 
+	public async getDocumentVersionContent({
+		documentId,
+		vaultUpdateId
+	}: {
+		documentId: DocumentId;
+		vaultUpdateId: VaultUpdateId;
+	}): Promise<Uint8Array> {
+		return this.retryForever(async () => {
+			this.logger.debug(
+				`Getting document with id ${documentId} and version ${vaultUpdateId}`
+			);
+
+			const response = await this.client(
+				this.getUrl(
+					`/documents/${documentId}/versions/${vaultUpdateId}/content`
+				),
+				{
+					headers: this.getDefaultHeaders()
+				}
+			);
+
+			if (response.ok) {
+				const result = await response.bytes();
+				this.logger.debug(
+					`Got document version content for document ${documentId} version ${vaultUpdateId}`
+				);
+				return result;
+			}
+
+			const result: SerializedError =
+				(await response.json()) as SerializedError; // eslint-disable-line @typescript-eslint/no-unsafe-type-assertion
+
+			throw new Error(
+				`Failed to get document: ${SyncService.formatError(result)}`
+			);
+		});
+	}
+
 	public async getAll(
 		since?: VaultUpdateId
 	): Promise<FetchLatestDocumentsResponse> {
diff --git a/frontend/sync-client/src/sync-operations/unrestricted-syncer.ts b/frontend/sync-client/src/sync-operations/unrestricted-syncer.ts
index ebbb076f..53960ae9 100644
--- a/frontend/sync-client/src/sync-operations/unrestricted-syncer.ts
+++ b/frontend/sync-client/src/sync-operations/unrestricted-syncer.ts
@@ -413,11 +413,11 @@ export class UnrestrictedSyncer {
 				return;
 			}
 
-			const content = (
-				await this.syncService.get({
-					documentId: remoteVersion.documentId
-				})
-			).contentBase64;
+			const contentBytes =
+				await this.syncService.getDocumentVersionContent({
+					documentId: remoteVersion.documentId,
+					vaultUpdateId: remoteVersion.vaultUpdateId
+				});
 
 			// We're trying to create an entirely new document that didn't exist locally
 			document = this.database.getDocumentByDocumentId(
@@ -431,8 +431,6 @@ export class UnrestrictedSyncer {
 				return;
 			}
 
-			const contentBytes = base64ToBytes(content);
-
 			await this.operations.ensureClearPath(remoteVersion.relativePath);
 
 			const [promise, resolve] = createPromise();