Flows disappear after a few hours!

Thanks Ben. I wonder if I could trouble you to add that info to your otherwise very nice documentation?

So we now know that you do not need to worry about that and you do not need any inbound connections from the Internet.

Thanks to everyone for the nice advice and good information. I'm learning all the time.

Linux is good when you have to have something to occupy yourself with, not wife-friendly and there are other interests that are more interesting...

Thanks again to you all and for a nice tone in the correspondence.

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when i had my issue it was because when i flashed the os I had changed one setting in raspberry pi imager and it caused my flows to be empty


i had checked set hostname and that caused my stuff to go away.
make sure that is not what you have done.
cheers

Node-RED stopped using flows stored in a file that included the hostname a LONG time ago, I suggest you upgrade.

To clarify, we changed the default settings file to include a hard coded flow file name.

If you have an older settings file, then it likely won't have the flow filename set in it, so the runtime will still use the hostname to generate the file name.

So the fix is it to ensure your settings file sets the flow file name.

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