Has anyone here tried to restore their data jar store from a backup? I was having some sync issues and thought it would be a good idea to backup my entire data jar store, delete, and restore from backup (I know, it was an ill advised decision, but it was late at night and I NEEDED my vegetable garden database to sync over to my phone, lol) The only problem is, when I try to restore from that backup, I don’t get any UI feedback when I tap “preview changes”. I don’t know if the backup is failing or if I just have a larger backup file (135 MB) and it’s taking a while to restore it. I’ve tweeted at the developer and it seems like he is doing his best to figure out the issue, but I thought one of you might have ran into a similar issue.
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Actually yes, I created an export file months ago, and forget about it.
And I recently found out I just lost some items in data jar because of some syncing issue.
So I created a shortcut to manipulate the exported json, merge the existing data in data jar with the updated json, and then set back into the data jar database. The result is somewhat satisfactory.
The parse json process requires Scriptable app, because I think doing it in JavaScript may be easier than in shortcut itself. But of coz you can do it in computer or sth.