UI-State-Trail persistence data help

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Can you tag people @hotNipi ??

I'm struggling with the persistence setup on this node. I assume if I correctly set the setting.js (below) then the node should store its own data? if this is the case I dont understand why I am seeing "Store: N/A" (below2)

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Help would be greatly appreciated

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Settings seems to be correct.
Do you have any other node, using the persistent storage? Do they work correctly?
How (where) are you running the node red? Locally? Cloud?

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its a local box (running in one of many docker containers)

I've changed my config to be same as seen in the example so now it looks like this.

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done a restart and still not grafting.
Going to look at storing some manual data now see if that works..

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I'm not an expert of docker installations but it seems that Node-RED can't access the file system.

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not sure how to word this in one question

should the node be saving to to context regardless of persistence settings?
should I be able to view node data in the node context once its running?

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Node uses same storage options as if you can use in function node - context.set('data',data)
Yes you can see it - navigate to .node-red folder and see if there is context folder, inside that you'll find folders with sort of id's
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and one of them should have JSON file inside with interested node's id as the name of file.
And it is pretty simple json with your states in it.
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If you are using projects, the context folder is moved to project space. Do search ...

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should I be able to view data here?

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Yes, that should show also.
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ok, saves me digger through the docker containers to find the file.

I would assume that even with persistence setup that node conext should fill for the session but it isnt.

I'm going to spin up a container with the latest node-red to see if that solves it

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No. Node holds live data in local object and does not even try to use context if persistence is not available.

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Balls.

Back to digging

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Fettled it.
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For reference if anyone else finds this.

Docker systems contains two settings.js files I was editing the one under

/usr/src/node0red/node_modules/node-red/settings.js

the actually settings file is located

/data/settings.js