Upgrade StorageCollection disappeared
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Was this in your personal library or in a group? Server logs show no collections having been deleted in your personal library in over a month.
Have you checked to see whether you simply dragged it somewhere else? You can do that either by looking for an item that was in the collection and checking the containing collections or by clicking in the collections pane, pressing + to expand all collections, and then looking for it elsewhere (or starting to type the name of it).
In an effort to retrieve the collection, I made a copy of the current "storage" and "sqlite" files, turned off automatic sync, and restored the "storage" and "sqlite" files from a backup version on an apple time machine. My plan is to copy and paste the most recent "storage" and "sqlite" files back into the directory. Once I do that, should I just go ahead and turn automatic sync back on? I'm just wondering in what direction the sync happens (from local to online or vice-versa) and if that matters.
Thank you so much!
(The exception is if you use "Restore to Online Library" from the Sync → Reset pane, which forces it to overwrite the online library, which you'd need to do to switch back to an older local database.)
@bwiernik: I think that's way too much friction, and I can't really think of any folder-like systems that do that. But I think it's helpful to know that this is probably what's happening a lot of the time when people say a library disappeared. And when we add deleted collections to the trash, it'll be even clearer that, when a collection isn't there, it's just somewhere else in the library.