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GChristensen / scrapyard

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So Much Probmise, but.... #43

Closed BrendaEM closed 3 years ago

BrendaEM commented 3 years ago

I tried an earlier version of Scrapyard, and became optimistic because it was the first extension that I thought capable of carrying the torch for Scrapbook. I imported my old scrapbook data, and did some work to weed the old stuff out. I needed to reinstall, so I made sure I had a back up the data. I reinstalled on the system, and my attempts to restore my effort has failed, with a Loading...

I had no problem with the old Scrapbook, for years.

What I wished would happen:

1.) Scrapbook would use extensions its file saves--unless the goal is not to hide a user's data from themselves for some nefarious purpose. 2.) There was a straightforward backup/restore function, or perhaps a sync one.

Thank you for working on Scrapyard. I look forward to using it.

GChristensen commented 3 years ago

Sorry, but I could not understand what exactly happened from the description. If you have imported a backed up JSON file and Scrapyard shows "Loading...", to debug this, please close the Scrapyard sidebar, open the following URL: about:devtools-toolbox?id=scrapyard-we%40firefox&type=extension , open the Console tab there, open Scrapyard sidebar, and post here the content that was printed in the console after you have opened the sidebar.

GChristensen commented 3 years ago

Well...

Scrapbook would use extensions its file saves--unless the goal is not to hide a user's data from themselves for some nefarious purpose.

It turns out that for a couple of weeks there was a horrible bug between version 0.11.7 and 0.11.8, which rendered all exports useless if no helper application was installed. Since I use the helper application myself and low on resources (can only dream of proper QA), it has escaped my testing routine. I do not do such things on purpose, this is a sad byproduct of the attempts to make the addon more performant and memory-efficient. Since I advertise backup whenever I can, you should have backups older than the last couple of weeks, which should work (but you may need to uninstall the add-on, restart Firefox, and install it again, if older backups do not work). Such a thing would have not happened if you have backed up your entire Firefox profile before system reinstallation.

There was a straightforward backup/restore function, or perhaps a sync one.

I have added a backup management UI in the addon settings, which is a decent piece of work. Please do not forget to donate, if you have good use of the software.