Clear cache – Seeking additional help, please!

[archizoo]

I am terrified. I have done so-o-o much work in Logseq and appear to have lost it all. While distracted in a side conversation, I used the “clear cache” button imagining I was just deleting some lingering in process files. Instead I seem to have lost all.

In other messages about this issue, people were told that all they needed to do was to “add new graph” from local files. I have opened every folder I have and all of them return the same thing … a new, fresh empty graph.

So, I’m missing something, right? What is it? I will be so appreciative!!!

[Junyi_Du]

Can you take a screenshot?
Basically you have a folder for your graph content (the folder docs here), typically CONTAINS folders like journals logseq pages INSIDE:

(Using the Logseq document graph as example)
Then you may pickup the folder ITSELF in the directory selecting UI (not the folders inside!):

I’m writing a FAQ about “How to clear cache”

How to Clear Cache in Logseq?

Step 1: Confirm where your data located: Logseq would ask you to pick a folder on startup: [image] Finds out the folder (for example, the folder docs here), it typically CONTAINS folders like journals logseq pages INSIDE: [image] (Using the Logseq document graph as example) REMEMBER the location of the folder ITSELF (e.g. the folder docs in this example, but not the folders inside!). May do some backup if you like [image] Step 2: Clear cache Try Settings > Advanced > Clear cac…