Accidentally deleted files on sever - how to preserve document?

michael-brade

Hi,

I have accidentally started rm -r in the wrong directory on my private server and deleted the last 5 months of data. In my browser I can still see the documents in IndexedDB. However, when I now (try to) open those documents, they will be briefly shown correctly, and then there is a message that the document was destroyed on the server (or that the password changed). It doesn't offer me a way to save it locally or store it on the server again. Is there any way I can keep my documents anyway?

thanks, Michael

michael-brade

While reading the cryptpad code, I have seen that my request kind of contradicts the feature that people might intentionally destroy documents so that others cannot read them anymore, e.g. burnAfterRead. But since this is my private server, this doesn't apply. However, it obviously means I have to change the cryptpad code in www/common/sframe-common.js and/or www/common/common-ui-elements.js and I am already testing some changes. If you have any hints regarding this, please let me know.

michael-brade

I have now been able to restore some of my documents by changing said JavaScript files. However, two problems are left:

the safe links feature makes it impossible to load a document from the browser if the cryptdrive was reloaded and the document is not there anymore - you cannot get the correct link anymore. Is it possible to find/restore the correct link from the data in cp_cache?
onlyoffice calc documents cannot be restored. Is their data never saved in the browser or is there a different reason?

michael-brade

Hm... one week and no comment at all about this? That is weird.