No flow backup in .node-red folder

I had a problem so I thought I'll go and restore the flows.json backup file but nothing there

simon@simon-HP-Desktop-M01-F1xxx:~/.node-red$ ls -l
total 4512
-rwxr-xr-x   1 simon simon    6746 Sep 12  2023 alexaFile.txt
drwxr-xr-x  11 simon simon    4096 Nov 20 15:02 context
-rw-rw-r--   1 simon simon     755 Nov 23 12:04 flows_cred.json
-rw-rw-r--   1 simon simon 2449113 Nov 25 08:32 flows.json
-rw-rw-r--   1 simon simon 1549106 Nov 20 16:28 flows.oldjson
drwxr-xr-x   3 simon simon    4096 Jan 28  2022 lib
-rwxr-xr-x   1 simon simon  109222 Dec  2  2022 multicam.png
drwxr-xr-x 558 simon simon   20480 Nov 24 21:34 node_modules
drwxr-xr-x   4 simon simon    4096 Aug 30  2023 node-red-matter
-rwxr-xr-x   1 simon simon    2061 Nov 24 21:34 package.json
-rwxr-xr-x   1 simon simon  402818 Nov 24 21:34 package-lock.json
-rwxr-xr-x   1 simon simon   20502 Sep 10  2023 settings1881.js
-rwxr-xr-x   1 simon simon   20488 Dec 20  2023 settings.js
drwxr-xr-x   2 simon simon    4096 Aug 30  2023 storage-9999d6bdbd001279

I'm not dreaming am I?
NR used to keep a backup of the flows.json and the credentials file didn't it???

The flows.oldjson was done manually by me a few days ago

Yes - they are hidden files - try ls -la to list all files...

Phew :slight_smile:

In previous times, I must have used my GUI file manager (which I always set to show hidden files) :slight_smile: