I didn’t open this plugin for a couple of weeks, today I needed to do some work and when I opened the plugin, I saw the following: a prompt to do a backup (the first one ever) which I did, an empty left pane where all demo and my custom macros were, but gone now, and a main area with one of my custom macros, but in an edited state, i.e. it prompted me to save the macro, but the Save button didn’t work. Restarting the plugin didn’t help - again, all my macros are gone and one of them is just opened in the main area, but it doesn’t run and can’t be saved. Does this mean that all my work is gone? The only backup I have is the one I’ve just did and it’s empty. I was using the default browser storage mode.
This seems to happen to all of us each time Kantu is updating their plugin automation engine. I’m sure it suppose not to happen but it might be also out of their control. I read it in one other post here on the forum.
Anyway, every time the plugin updates (and that happens automatically) all my kantu scripts are gone and I have hundreds.
Lucky I ALWAY backup my macros if I do any changes to any of my macros. It’s easy with the kantu plugin as it saves all the scripts in a single zip file. And it is same easy restore them from the backup zip file. So it’s not a deal breaker for me but I agree important to know if you do not usually do backups of your work.
I sorry and guess your scripts might be gone unless someone else recovers them.
Wow, never happened to me, but it seems some users report this issue. Backup is always good. The other alternative is to store the macros on the hard-drive, not inside the browser extension (which is the default). To do so, switch to hard-drive mode. This also allows for easy integration with source control, like github.
I see. Lesson learned I guess. Although I think it’s a bad UX decision to not make hard-drive mode the default one. I used the original iMacros years ago and there wasn’t such a thing as a browser mode back then, so nobody had to ever lose and recreate all their macros at that time. If something works fine, no need to “improve” it
Yeah, imacros stored the macros inside the bookmarks, this was good. On the other hand, Ui.Vision macros can contain images and CSV files. So the bookmark option would not work for them.
…actually, I guess this is why ui vision has a backup reminder:
