After exporting all flows hundreds of syntax error when importing?

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Hello,

i am a bit desperate because i don't want to loose all my flows :roll_eyes:

This is what happened:
Menu -> Export -> All Flows -> Copy to clipboard -> Paste to Github (as comment)

Then i reinstalled my server and tried to import the flows to a new NodeRed install but getting syntax errors.

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Did i do something wrong? How do i fix that problem?

I appreciate every feedback.

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Flow too long to post it. So i uploaded it in a json file.
Flows.txt (86.4 KB)

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It looks like you have got lots of extra newline characters there. How are you copying it back? Perhaps clone it locally and move the file into the .node-red folder, and rename it.

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When you go to your GitHub page, do you see a raw button? Click that to see unformatted/original values.

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Okay. Now i see what happened. I paste it as a comment to one of my Gists on Github. So i guess the github comment section formatted it. And now i am in this mess.
But i can't find out what Github did to that code. I don't see anything wrong with it. Hmm

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Paste it again to an editor that can handle pure text, then maybe you will see what is wrong and you can do search & replace if necessary. I personally use UltraEdit

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You should be able to edit the comment on the gist to get the unaltered raw text.

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Unfortunately i don't have the original code any more :frowning:

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Huff.... smart thinking. That did the job. Thanks a lot :+1:

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