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Moving Publii to a new computer

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  • #1040
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    This past week my PC where I had Publii installed crashed. Luckily the day before I made backups of all my site’s local directories which Publii used. I have my sites deployed to Netlify and have all the login credentials/tokens saved.

    I’ve transferred my files to a new device. Apart from installing Publii, what I do I have to do to get Publii to recognize the local directory where my files are and then sync them with Netlify as before?

    #1043
    Avatar photoBob

    There are two ways to restore the website from the backup:

    1. Go to Documents/Publii/sites/ and create a folder with the name of your backed-up website, then unzip your backup file and extract here its content (three folders: input, output, preview, to be exact); now launch an app.
    2. Create a new website with the same as your backed-up website, and recover the content using the Backup Tool.

    I hope it helps.

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    #1049
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    Hi,

    I had a similar problem and don’t have a backup even. Will downloading the repository from GitHub help me in continuing my development? How?

    Thanks

    #1050
    Avatar photoBob

    @shantnav I’m afraid it’s not possible to recover your website from the rendered files.

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    #1055
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    Thanks for this! I just tried method #1 and it worked. The only thing I needed to do there is reset the server settings (enter the Netlify API key/Tokens etc). I think as long as the path is as it is in method #1, everything will work.

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