How do I recover a story?

greenapple

Recently I tried to access my story on version 2.0.11 on a browser. When I got their it was deleted. I didn't have it archived though. Why did this happen and how can I recover it?

greyelf

The hosted release of Twine 2 accessed via the Use it online link on the main web-page stores your Story Projects locally within your web-browser's LocalStorage cache.

This means that you cannot access your Story Projects using a different brand of web-browser on the same machine, or using any web-browser on a different machine.

If you are using the same web-browser on the same machine and still cant see your Story Projects then it is possible that you (or something) has flushed your web-browser's LocalStorage cache which means that the projects are gone for good.

This can happen if you Clear Browser Data (or whatever your brand of web-browser calls it) and have the wrong option(s) selected.

This is one reason why doing backups using the Archive option is important

greenapple

Thank you greyelf! Sadly you confirmed my suspicions.

mykael

It's also a really good reason to stick with 1.4.2...

greyelf

mykael wrote: »

It's also a really good reason to stick with 1.4.2...

Making backups is a good idea even if you are using the Twine 1.x application, which saves your Story Projects as TWS files on your local hard-drive.

The installable release of the Twine 2.x application saves your Story Projects as HTML files on your local hard-drive, so in that respect it is no different than Twine 1.x

Focksbot

As far as I can tell - and I may be missing something - 'Publish to File' in Twine 2 works exactly like saving a file in Twine 1 or any other program. I just treat that as my 'save' option, knowing that the html file output can be easily reimported into any version of Twine 2 later.

greyelf

Focksbot wrote: »

As far as I can tell - and I may be missing something

One small but important difference between the Story HTML file generated by Twine 2's Publish to File option and the Story Project file used by Twine 1 (TWS) and the installable Twine 2 (HTML) applications is that the Story Project file basically contain only the Passage data of your Story (**) but the Story HTML file is a copy of the selected Story Format's web-app engine with the Story's Passage data embed within it.

** They also contain some meta/structural data used by the T1/T2 applications.