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Missing websites

March 27, 2022 at 6:05 am #7171

[anonymous]

Hello,
Yesterday I opened Publii and could no longer find any of my websites. I don’t know what happened, but the problem now is to restore them.
I have a backup of one of the sites, the most important one (a scientific journal). But if I create a new site with the same name, it don’t let me import the backup. How can I restore a site in such a case?

March 27, 2022 at 6:16 am #7172
Bob
Hey,
It looks like you probably deleted the folder with your site, but if you have a backup, you can easily restore it by following a few steps:
1. Unzip the backup file e.g. my_website-03-11-2022-06-32-34.tar
2. Rename (if necessary) the unpacked folder to my_website
3. Move this folder to the following location: ‎⁨ /Documents/Publii⁩/sites⁩/
4. Run the Publii app.
That’s it.
March 27, 2022 at 11:37 am #7174

[anonymous]

Thank you Bob for your reply.
The folders were all on Dropbox. Unfortunately I deleted them now by mistake, changing the file location to Publii.
And unfortunately also the backup file seems to be corrupted.
I now have a remotely published site and no local files in Publii. There is a way to import the published pages into Publii? The alternative is to redo the site from scratch (for the second time).

March 27, 2022 at 6:50 pm #7175

[anonymous]

Hi Naciketas,

Please try to restore your files on Dropbox – as they data retention policy states – you have at least 30 days for it: https://help.dropbox.com/en-gb/files-folders/restore-delete/data-retention-policy

March 27, 2022 at 9:08 pm #7176

[anonymous]

Hi Thomasz, I followed your advice and managed to retrieve the site. Thank you very much.