Hi ,
I had a few sketches uploaded on p5js web editor. However when i logged into it post vacation , the sketches seem to have disappeared. Has anyone else faced similar problem ?
Are you sure you are not logging into the wrong account?.
Subsequently ensure you also save your work on your local machine.
Hi @basicvisual,
I haven’t lost any saved sketches, but have sometimes forgotten to log in before trying to save them. However, there are some safeguards built in. If we try to save a sketch without having logged in first, the Web Editor gives this warning:
If we are logged in and using the Chrome browser, and try to leave the page without saving, we may get this warning:
Sometimes, I have seen that warning from Chrome even after having saved the sketch.
Perhaps there is a glitch that might cause a saved sketch to get lost, but I’ve not seen any reports of one.
Is there any possibility that you were using the Web Editor when unbeknownst to you, someone else was logged in?
I have checked , i usually try to login with my github account and logout as well. I am pretty sure the sketches and partial works were lost . But it was some basic stuff so I think i can recover or work back again
I just lost a sketch. I am certain I had saved several times, over multiple days. The sketch no longer appears in My Sketches. Very strange. Lost some work I wanted, but more importantly if this happens to my students, they will be rather upset. The only thing I can suggest for a clue is that I was logged into a different account in Gmail, in the same browser. I chose to log into p5.js using Google, and chose a different account. I have logged into p5.js with the other account, but it didn’t save there. I don’t know if there is some bug with juggling Google logins in the same session. Or, perhaps this was not the issue at all. Anyway, the sketch definitely disappeared!