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A decentralized messaging and sharing app built on top of Secure Scuttlebutt (SSB).
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Info about how to see old private messages #1438

Closed ghost closed 3 years ago

ghost commented 3 years ago

Hello, if I write a privmessage (I use them as private note for just myself) I see them only till they are marked as "new". If I read them, and close/restart the client patchwork, I'm not able to see them again. How do I recover them?

ghost commented 3 years ago

Ok I see that priv messages disappear if I launch patchbay in the same folder as patchwork. It seems it moves files eleswhere. Is there any way to undo the whole thing ?

black-puppydog commented 3 years ago

Hi @iz5wga, I don't have a lot of time right now but just two things:

  1. Don't run patchbay and patchwork at the same time. I mights work in theory but both apps are sufficiently complex that it's just a source of errors.
  2. If you run them one after the other they will "re-index" a lot of data every time you switch. during that time, not seeing your messages is normal.
  3. Patchbay has been completely unmaintained for a while
  4. Patchwork will be unmaintained in about one week from now.
  5. None of the two will move your data back or forth. It will always live in ~/.ssb/flume/offset.log which both patchbay and patchwork read & write to, regardless of which folder you launch them in.
black-puppydog commented 3 years ago

Here's an explanation I wrote a while back about re-indexing: %udGeAIq/I36t/TnjtmZfXcb/ZnHBZkLLiP7qndMoWCc=.sha256

ghost commented 3 years ago
  1. Patchwork will be unmaintained in about one week from now.

Ah... and what are we using under linux as client then? Are there any alternatives?

black-puppydog commented 3 years ago

For the time being, patchwork will of course continue to work. Oasis and manyverse are both working hard at making them viable alternatives.