Local storage disappeared after my mac shutdown

[LadyForest]

Current behavior

Yesterday my mac suddenly turned off and then I found my local storage disappeared and all my notes are gone. I check the dir ~/Library/Application Support/Boost Note but I don't know how to recover from it. There were ~20 notes and I was really upset :(

Here are some logs to help to debug.

cd ~/Library/Application Support/Boost Note/IndexedDB/file__0.indexeddb.leveldb
cat -n 000006.log | grep -a 'createdAt'

Expected behavior

Steps to reproduce

Environment

• Boostnote version: 0.3.0
• OS version and name: MacOS Catalina 10.15.4

[Rokt33r]

I moved this because you're definitely using BoostNote.next app.
It looks like the app has failed to save storage info in localStorage(https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/localStorage). But from the screenshot you've shared, the data seem to
exist in indexedDB.
So this solution in here #380 (comment) might work for you. Please try it.

[Rokt33r]

I'm going to close this issue because of inactivity. I assume it can be fixed by the solution in the previous comment.

Also, I'm going to introduce some recovery tools so you can fix it without opening console of browser or electron. The task will be tracked in #427

[LadyForest]

I moved this because you're definitely using BoostNote.next app.
It looks like the app has failed to save storage info in localStorage(https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/localStorage). But from the screenshot you've shared, the data seem to
exist in indexedDB.
So this solution in here #380 (comment) might work for you. Please try it.

Thank you and let me try it :)

[LadyForest]

I moved this because you're definitely using BoostNote.next app.
It looks like the app has failed to save storage info in localStorage(https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/localStorage). But from the screenshot you've shared, the data seem to
exist in indexedDB.
So this solution in here #380 (comment) might work for you. Please try it.

Thank you and let me try it :)

It works, thanks so much 👍

[code56]

I deleted Boostsnotes from my MAC and now I re-installed it and I want to recover the notes I had. I am not sure I had them backed up in the Cloud or not. Is it possible to recover them somehow? Thank you in advance.

[Komediruzecki]

Hi code56,

I cannot tell you which storage you had:

• if you had local storage, the notes should be on your disk
• if you had legacy cloud storage, the sync is no longer possible, so you would need to have it synced in other to retrieve them (did you use account to log into boost note) - please contact @Rokt33r for further information on how to get your notes
• if you had cloud storage, the data should be on your account
• if you used legacy local storage, the notes should also be in application data (if not removed)

Can you give more information about version of the boost note you had (this might reduce the number of possible storages, since legacy cloud and local storage were removed recently)
Also, did you try looking for boostnote.json file on your file system, if you find something like this, you maybe had local storage.