I had this happen once before (I don't reboot my main machine very often) but when it happened I just put it down to some glitch in the matrix but it#s happened again :frowning: I have a flow that looks out for files xxx (1).scad and renames them to xxx.scad In the past few weeks I added ability t…

I've found the issue Turns out I don't manually start NR on this machine - I scripted it and got folder wrong! [image] #Plonker :slight_smile:

Backup the .node-red directory to a USB stick or similar and do a full power cycle, with power off for 30 seconds. Reboot and check the flows.

Just trying out a few things first e.g. I've made changes and deployed but the datetime of my flows hasn't changed simon@simon-HP-Desktop-M01-F1xxx:~/.node-red$ ls -l --sort=time total 3372 drwxr-xr-x 6 simon simon 4096 Oct 28 10:01 context -rw-rw-r-- 1 simon simon 1281506 Oct 18 17:37 flow…

Can you check your settings.js for the readOnly option? Something like readOnly: true Just a thought... :thinking:

do a ls -la to also show hidden files... what dates are on the flows backup files ? (Sadly you've done a deploy since so they may be overwritten)

simon@simon-HP-Desktop-M01-F1xxx:~/.node-red$ ls -la --sort=time total 6408 drwxr-x--- 90 simon simon 73728 Oct 29 03:00 .. drwxr-xr-x 6 simon simon 4096 Oct 28 10:01 context drwxr-xr-x 7 simon simon 4096 Oct 18 17:37 . -rw-rw-r-- 1 simon simon 1281506 Oct 18 17:37 flows.json -rw-rw-r…

readOnly not set /** If you installed the optional node-red-dashboard you can set it's path * relative to httpNodeRoot * Other optional properties include * readOnly:{boolean}, * middleware:{function or array}, (req,res,next) - http middleware * ioMiddleware:{functio…

Restart node red in a command window and check the output to make sure you are using the flows file that you think you are. Are you absolutely certain that the dir listing you have shown is for the same pi that you are accessing via the node-red editor?

[image] Colin: Are you absolutely certain that the dir listing you have shown is for the same pi that you are accessing via the node-red editor? "absolutely" no :slight_smile: but all clues point to me looking at the flows on this (my main desktop HP machine) [image] Not going to restart N…

It looks odd that context has a newer timestamp than . Is .node-red or any of it's subdirectories a link to a different file, on a network drive maybe?

Flow changes not surving a reboot :(

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cymplecy 29 October 2025 09:06 11

This is my main desktop machine that I'm typing this on

NR is just in the standard /home/username/.node-red folder

I start it up manually each time I reboot by simply opening new terminal window

I'm in no illusion that it is probably me doing something wrong but by golly, I'm stumped as to what that is

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