Images and backup files

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Charles Waterfield

• April 27, 2021 01:57

I love the ability to add images now. They add incredible power to my note taking. But I'm concerned about losing the images, either through a broken WorkFlowy file or from my accidentally deleting a branch that contains images.

The wonderful daily backup feature sets my mind at rest for all my text, but it seems the backup files do not contain the images. Nor do the images get included when I do an export.

The only way I can currently find to safeguard my images is to go through my file, find them one-by-one, and click the download button. And then I have to store all those image files somewhere.

Is there any other way to make sure my images won't be lost?

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  Frank (Workflowy Support)

  • April 27, 2021 22:12

  Hi Charles,

  Absolutely! We are going to be looking at options moving forward for the backup of images and documents. It's an ongoing conversation that the team is having and we realize that it is essential.

  Just one detail as to the current dynamic... if you delete an outline with documents and images, they can still be restored from our end... but if you click on the image options menu and delete, it is immediately exponged from our servers.

   

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  Charles Waterfield

  • April 27, 2021 22:18

  Much appreciated, Frank. I fully expected that if the option wasn't there yet, you would have it in the pipeline. WF is my favorite software of all time!

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  Marcin

  • November 06, 2021 16:27

  Hi Frank,

  Any update regarding backup of images and attachments?
  
  Best,
  Marcin

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  Artur

  • July 12, 2022 18:09

  Hi Frank,

  Any update regarding backup of images and attachments?
  
  Best,
  Artur

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  Frank (Workflowy Support)

  • July 12, 2022 20:00

  Hi Artur,

  I have brought this up several times with the team in team meetings... I will continue to do so.

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  Artur

  • July 12, 2022 20:07

  Ok, because without support of backuping files, the feature backup in general became a little bit useless. At least for me, because I have a lot of valuable files (like diagrams and sketches) connected to my notes.

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  Frank (Workflowy Support)

  • July 12, 2022 21:17

  100% understood!

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  Charles Waterfield

  • July 12, 2022 21:34

  I'm the one who asked the original question.  I have 370 images in my WorkFlowy, and few of them have backup image files. So what I'm doing (until Frank gets us the feature) is searching for has:image. I then print to file as a PDF in landscape at 70% scale so the right side of the images doesn't get clipped off.

  If I lose my WF file (which I never have in 10 years) it  would be a laborious process to clip out all those images and paste them back in again. But... better than losing them.

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  Artur

  • July 28, 2022 10:55

  Hi Frank,

  Any update regarding backup of images and attachments?
  
  Best,
  Artur

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  Frank (Workflowy Support)

  • July 28, 2022 17:20
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  I have been pressing the team on this lately. I will continue!

  Internal reference

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  Artur

  • September 20, 2022 17:28

  Hi Frank,

  Is there any update regarding the backup of images and attachments?

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  Artur

  • October 26, 2022 08:25

  Any updates?

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  Charles Waterfield

  • December 01, 2022 21:06

  I asked the original question 2 years ago. This seems to not be happening, which is a shame, and more than a bit nerve-wracking.

  Lots of great new features being added to WorkFlowy, but helping us be able to recover hundreds of images embedded in our files is higher on my list than many of those new features....

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  Sander Kooijmans

  • April 27, 2023 13:01

  Any news on this request? Without an easy way to export everything, including images, I don't dare to add images.

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  Passamonti Ubaldo

  • April 28, 2023 15:29

  +1. Not being able to easily recover images/documents from the web  means I can no more use Workflowy as my PKM. It's a pity. Workflowy is otherwise absolutely beautiful.

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  Luigi Bonini

  • May 26, 2024 21:33

  Hi, any news on this front?

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  Joel Stocker

  • June 20, 2024 08:21

  Best thing I can think of to do for now is insert a hashtag to find all image files and put them under one search page result, then download the images or save the search page results as a PDF.

  Other tags could be added to indicate what page each image is embedded in, in case you need to re-add images--the embedding pages would all be there in the #image tag search results via those other, adjacent tags.

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  Luigi Bonini

  • June 20, 2024 16:27

  Nice idea Joel, I will try it out (the pdf idea, even if the resolution of the images won't be as the one of the embedded images).

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  Raj

  • July 29, 2024 19:04

  Images can also filtered by inputting has:image in search bar.

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