cannot open tab

[Tarsopilami]

Hi,

I recently lost all content of my tab.

To get it back, I tried:

closing copyq, restoring the .dat file from a week old backup (when it was working fine) and restarting. No success - there is only a circular arrow to be seen.

installing latest Copyq using hluk/copyq repository & trying again - this time Copyq shows a short message about tab corruption with ability to choose but then aborts & exits

Using command line export does not work

copyq importData ./copyq_tab_WndpcyZjaGVuYWJsYWdl.dat
ScriptError: Datei „./copyq_tab_WndpcyZjaGVuYWJsYWdl.dat“ kann nicht importiert werden!

--- backtrace ---
f@:1
importData
--- end backtrace ---

Please help. I have run out of ideas how to restore the content.

OS: Ubuntu 22.04/HWE; CopyQ 9.1.0~jammy

[hluk]

Can you share logs (F12 shortcut from the main window)? There should be some information about the failure reading/loading the data file.

Also, if the tab was encrypted or synchronized to a directory (Synchronize plugin), make sure you have plugins installed. If you open Item configuration tab in CopyQ, it should list some plugins (like "Encryption" and "Synchronize"). I think there is a separate package copyq-plugins in Ubuntu official package repository.

BTW, importData (and exportData) uses different file format than the .dat files.

[Tarsopilami]

Thank you hluk for your participation. In the meantime I managed to find an older copy of the .dat files and was able to restore the tab in question with minimal loss.

By the way, CopyQ is awesome 🥇 !