Yesterday, nodered did an auto update to 14.4 and it completely broke my access to flows. I couldn’t get back into the nodered workspace.
After a bit of messing about searching for solutions on the net, I managed to get nodered working again but only after completely doing a fresh install, messing about with backups which would break it again, etc (I have definitely learnt the value of backing up each flow as a separate downloaded file).
Having recovered all my flows, I noticed that one flow which heavily relies on sending info to and from a file for manipulation wasn’t doing so. On further investigation, I noticed that the following section …
contextStorage: {
default: "memoryOnly",
memoryOnly: { module: 'memory' },
file: { module: 'localfilesystem' }
},
was not longer in the nodered setting file - so I reintroduced it and I instantly could no longer access nodered. Went back and removed it from the settings file and I could immediately access nodered again. No other changes in between.
So the questions are;
1 - is this a bug that breaks nodered,
2 - am I doing something wrong/out-of-date wrt setting up local file access
3 - how can I revert to the last 4.3 version of nodered?
Any advise/help/pointing in the right direction would be most welcome, and thank you to all those who give their time to help numpties like me …