Continuing the discussion from All my nodes and flows gone : [image] All my nodes and flows gone General That can be achieved by just changing the settings.js template that gets copied over to new workspaces, no code changes required. Just uncomment flowFile: 'flows.json' …

Ah right. That comment was in the context of a discussion around changing our old default behaviour of generating the flow file name based on hostname, versus having it hardcoded by default in the settings.js file you get when you first run Node-RED. Since that discussion, we did change the default…

awneil 5 October 2022 10:07 3

Just quoting what @kuema said in the old thread:

(my emphasis)

So I dunno - am I misunderstanding that? Is that wrong?

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