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Database gone/reset to defaults #469

Closed brianbuccola closed 2 years ago

brianbuccola commented 4 years ago

Hi,

Basically the same thing as #247, it seems. I opened brewtarget, and all my settings, equipment, recipes, etc. are gone. Tried quitting and restarting several times, no luck.

One thing that may be related: I often open brewtarget just to check some info and then close it, without changing anything. Yet brewtarget asks if I want to save my changes. I always click "No" just to be safe (in case I did accidentally change something), but now I wonder whether by clicking "No" at some point, it decided simply to wipe out my database entirely.

Not sure there's anything I can do besides report the experience. I guess from now on I'll save a copy in Dropbox.

Brian

mikfire commented 4 years ago

I am honestly very sorry this happened. Right now, using dropbox as your data directory is our best recommendation. What version are you using?

PR #260 did resolve as many of the issues as I could find. But I am not certain it ever made it into a release. We lost our release manager just before 2.4.0, and nobody has yet volunteered to try again.

brianbuccola commented 4 years ago

I'm on version 2.3.1 (for Linux). I'll try upgrading to 2.4.0 and see if that helps.

I am honestly very sorry that this happened.

No worries at all. Thanks for all the hard work. Brewtarget has been very useful.

soldbyboyd commented 4 years ago

This is also my experience--everything is gone :(. Another problem I have, though, is that whenever I click the button/field next to beer category, or try to add a fermentable, the program closes out without warning.

I really love this program and would like to use it again! A little sad about losing a few dozen recipes but we can rebuild. Any advice?

matty0ung commented 4 years ago

@soldbyboyd, I wonder if the crashing is perhaps because of some permissions issue either with your database file or with the directory it lives in. Can you upload your log file (brewtarget_log.txt), configuration file (brewtarget.conf) and database file (database.sqlite)?

matty0ung commented 4 years ago

@mikfire What needs to be done to get 2.4.0 out the door? Happy to help...

dpettersson commented 4 years ago

Hi,

The database should have been backed up and they should be located in the same directory as the regular db. Replace the current db with an older copy and your recipies should be back.

These older copies are replace at some points so it might be to late, but it is worth a try.

/Dpettersson

Den lör 12 sep. 2020 01:19soldbyboyd notifications@github.com skrev:

This is also my experience--everything is gone :(. Another problem I have, though, is that whenever I click the button/field next to beer category, or try to add a fermentable, the program closes out without warning.

I really love this program and would like to use it again! A little sad about losing a few dozen recipes but we can rebuild. Any advice?

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matty0ung commented 2 years ago

Closing this ticket as I believe this should no longer be an issue with the latest release (3.0.0) as there has been quite a lot of work to make DB handling more robust, including adding automatic DB backups.