Flows are not saved

Alexander Pivovarov

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Mar 10, 2016, 1:50:21 AM3/10/16

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Another issue I encountered is lost all changes I did yesterday. The flows was deployed. I added some new flows. The restarted the node-red.

All works are gone - I was pushed back to some intermediate state and lot of work was lost.

I checked JSON files in .node-red but they are old one... I would wish to have Save As button.

Meanwhile will save backups manually via export to clipboard :-)

Mark Setrem

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Mar 10, 2016, 4:01:34 AM3/10/16

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If you lost ALL the changes you made the chances are that you have somehow managed to load a different flows file.

How did you install node-red? which platform are you running on? which version of node-red and Nodejs? How do you start nodered?

Alexander Pivovarov

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Mar 10, 2016, 4:53:24 AM3/10/16

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If you lost ALL the changes you made the chances are that you have somehow managed to load a different flows file.
How did you install node-red? which platform are you running on? which version of node-red and Nodejs? How do you start nodered?

I installed node-red with sudo npm install -g node-red and run with node-red without arguments.

10 Mar 09:09:36 - [info] Node-RED version: v0.13.3

10 Mar 09:09:36 - [info] Node.js version: v4.2.4

Platform: OSX

I deployed changes quite many times since the version I got....

Probably I could run node-red from different locations - could it be the root of the issue?

Nicholas O'Leary

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Mar 10, 2016, 4:58:29 AM3/10/16

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When it starts up, it also logs the exact flow file its using.

Have a look in the directory of that file is see if you have other flow files in there. By default it uses the hostname as part of the filename.

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Dave C-J

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Mar 10, 2016, 5:00:32 AM3/10/16

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and also we keep a one-level backup as .flows_{your_hostname}.json.backup - so that may still exist.. - but of course by now it may have been overwritten by any more recent deploy.

Alexander Pivovarov

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Mar 10, 2016, 5:55:26 AM3/10/16

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!!!!

flows_Alexanders-MBP.json

flows_Alexanders-MBP_cred.json

flows_Alexanders-MacBook-Pro.local.json

flows_Alexanders-MacBook-Pro.local_cred.json

and it seems .local.json is what I need - so my work is not lost!

how to load it?

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Nicholas O'Leary

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Mar 10, 2016, 5:57:11 AM3/10/16

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You can specify the exact flow file to use on the command line - http://nodered.org/docs/getting-started/running#command-line-usage

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Mark Setrem

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Mar 10, 2016, 6:14:49 AM3/10/16

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Unfortunately that's a common issue with MacOS X networking in the past 2 versions of MacOS X the Mac can picks up one of those names on boot. So as Nick says if you specify the flows file you will avoid the issue.

Alexander Pivovarov

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Mar 11, 2016, 1:19:05 AM3/11/16

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Ok, thanks!

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