Lost my config files

Configuration
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I have been using Studio Code Server coupled with GitHub for some time, but never checked if GitHub was working correctly.

Separately I used OneDrive to backup my c:\Documents folder under which GitHub stores repositories. OneDrive seems to move the folders to a new location.

When I now go into HA and open SCS I see nothing. I even tried using File Editor and see nothing.

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If I open Terminal I do not see anything in the config folder.

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But I can reboot HA with no problem, so I assume that the config files are somewhere, probably where they are expected to be, but I just can’t see them because of the SCS or GitHub settings.

Clearly I am nervous about losing my entire setup, so any and all help is greatly appreciated.

Is there any other information that is required to make the diagnosis easier?

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you might need to restart the host to fix this issue, see /config folder is empty? - #10 by kiwidan

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Thanks Dan, I tried that, and see that I even contributed to the thread you posted.

But I still can’t see anything. Whether I use Terminal, SCS, or File Editor I get nothing.

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haven’t had the issue for a long time but also didn’t need to restore any backups. I assume there is some kind of permission problems

➜  ~ ls -al
total 164
drwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          4096 Apr 12 21:14 .
drwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          4096 Mar 27 19:17 ..
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root          4096 Mar 27 19:17 .config
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            16 Mar 27 19:17 .gitconfig -> /data/.gitconfig
drwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          4096 Mar 27 07:40 .oh-my-zsh
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            10 Mar 27 19:17 .ssh -> /data/.ssh
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root           942 Mar 27 08:12 .tmux.conf
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         36714 Mar 29 20:19 .zcompdump-a0d7b954-ssh-5.9
-r--r--r--    1 root     root         84168 Mar 29 20:19 .zcompdump-a0d7b954-ssh-5.9.zwc
-rw-------    1 root     root          8270 Apr 12 21:14 .zsh_history
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          3182 Mar 27 08:12 .zshrc
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root             7 Mar 27 19:17 addons -> /addons
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root             7 Mar 27 19:17 backup -> /backup
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root             7 Mar 27 19:17 config -> /config
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root             6 Mar 27 19:17 media -> /media
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root             6 Mar 27 19:17 share -> /share
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root             4 Mar 27 19:17 ssl -> /ssl
➜  ~
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This is my result

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I don’t have the .config but the rest seems to be what I would expect.

But you might be right about some authority settings. I use SambaShare and I have been able to see the config folder from my Windows laptop, but when I try to open it from File Explorer I get a permissions error.

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But I can see the other folders from my Windows laptop, such as backups.

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Quite possible that samba is messing up with the permissions, but no clue how to address this.

Could also be one of the add-on’s that creates issues as you mentioned in other thread that access was restored after updating some of them.

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Thanks for the suggestion Dan. Unfortunately I have had Samba running very successfully for at least 12 months. I have been using a different backup solution that runs on an RPi 4 that takes a full backup of the entire HA folder structure.

Since it has been running successfully, I can only assume that something has changed on the HA side. And I have no idea what that could be.

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…and magically the config folder is back again after the latest update to core. :wink: