Discussion about recovering lost HedgeDoc work after a repository failure and forced page reload

Hi everyone,

I had an issue with HedgeDoc and I would like to know if there is any way to recover my work.

Last Friday (May 15), around 4:30 p.m., I finished working on an important document that included videos and images. When I tried to make the commit, the repository was failing, so I decided to leave the tab open in Vivaldi and wait until the service was working again.

Yesterday, I noticed the repository was back online, so I returned to the tab to download my work and upload it later. However, all the HedgeDoc tabs I had open were showing an error message asking to reload the page. When I reloaded the tab containing my document, I was automatically logged out of my account. After logging back in, all my work was gone. The document appeared completely empty, as if it had just been created a few seconds earlier.

Is there any way to recover previous versions, autosaved content, or cached data from HedgeDoc? Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

Hey @keinny_c and welcome to the HedgeDoc community!

There is the a revision dialog in the top-right menu that shows you which revisions the server has saved for the note in question. But your case reads to me that the data is lost and can’t be retrieved.

DerMolly