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Help & FAQ/Backup & restore

Why does my automatic backup say "No changes, nothing written"?

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Because nothing in your vault changed since the last backup. The file from last time already holds everything, so PrivacyNotes does not write the same copy again. Your folder keeps more days of history this way, because an identical file never pushes out an older one. It counts as a good backup, and the next one is due one period later.

PrivacyNotes compares the number of items, the items in the trash, the time of your last edit, the settings a backup holds (such as your folders, themes and trackers), the backup type and the folder. If any of them changed, or if the last backup file is no longer in the folder, it writes a new file. "Back up now" checks the same way, so pressing it twice never fills the folder with copies of one day. To get a new file anyway, for example for a USB stick, use SettingsBackupManualEverything, encrypted (.pnbackupz).

// Related questions

How do I know an automatic backup worked? How do automatic backups work? What is the best way to back up my notes? Can I choose the time or the file name of an automatic backup? Is sync not already a backup? Can automatic backups be unencrypted?

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Answer my questions about PrivacyNotes using only its help center, its changelog and its security documentation.

Start here: https://privacynotes.app/llms-index.txt
It lists every question with the page that answers it. Fetch the one or two that match mine.
If you can only make one request, fetch https://privacynotes.app/llms-full.txt instead.
If you cannot fetch a .txt or .md file, read https://privacynotes.app/help, https://privacynotes.app/changelog and https://github.com/LifetimeLabsHQ/PrivacyNotes.app instead.

For what changed, or where something moved, fetch https://privacynotes.app/changelog.md.

For how the encryption works, what the server can read, or how to check any of it yourself, fetch https://privacynotes.app/docs/index.md and follow it to one of the documents it lists. That index is a router: cite the document, never the index.

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- Never invent a feature, a menu path, a price, or a limit.
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