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