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Data lost when copying config from one workspace to another

Hi,

I have two workspaces in SiYuan. I wanted to copy all the config from one workspace to another. I copied the "conf" folder from the first workspace folder to the second.

However, in the second workspace, all the notebooks from the first one appeared. I deleted them manually. Then, when checking the first workspace, all the notebooks were gone from it as well.

There was some important data in those notebooks, and I have no idea how to restore them. I assumed the workspace folders are completely independent one from another, so why does something so simple as copying all the config also copy all the data, and synchronizes that data between the folders?

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    • zxhd86 • • 1

      You can first disable synchronization, manually roll back the snapshot and then change the sync mode to "Full manual sync". Click on Sync in your settings menu again but this time choose "Upload local data snapshot" as a direction for synchronizing.

      After that, change back to automatic syncing.

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    • akmtk •
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      Update: I was able to restore the data via Main Menu / Data History, there select Snapshots, rollback to the previous snapshot.

      BUT, now cloud sync doesn't work! Whenever I sync, it gives me back the state with the deleted data. How do I force the cloud to make the rolled back state as the current, most recent?

    • akmtk •
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      Ok, I see. How about the ability to roll back to a snapshot and sync it back to the cloud, as I was writing in my post above? Currently, the only way to do so is to remove the entire cloud folder, which also erases all the history, which is suboptimal.

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    • akmtk •
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      Are there any plans then to make it possible to copy the config (as in, the settings you set from the user interface, e.g. use Adaptive Width) from one workspace to another?

      I'd like to isolate personal files from work files, but I would like to share the settings between the two workspaces. Ideally, it would be good to have the settings configurable per-app, not per-workspace.

      Edit: just splitting the user-facing config and system config in two separate files, and documenting it somewhere, would already be a great solution!

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