[Solved] Focalboard v7.11.3 won't start after upgrade from 7.0.1

Hello!

I used Focalboard 7.0.1 and (tried) to update to version 7.11.3 - after updating it - Focalboard won’t start anymore. The issue is reproducible.

What’s my problem?
I lost access to my focalboard since I cannot start the program with the (old) “focalboard.db” saved in documents\focalboard. I am not able to recover anything anymore :frowning:

What am I using:
Windows 10 - Focalboard local version (downloaded via github).
I am using Focalboard alone - no server or whatsoever. Saved in a Folder.

What did I do:
I downloaded the latest version of Focalboard v7.11.3 and double-clicked on the Focalboard.exe.
Thats it. Focalboard won’t start.

What (might) be wrong?
The file “focalboard.db” (located in documents/focalboard) changed the minute after I tried to start the new version. If I delete the current “focalboard.db” and start the program again - it works just fine.
However, I cannot simply override the newly (and empty) created “focalboard.db” with my old one.

How do we reproduce the issue?
Start a clean Focalboard 7.0.1. Open a project. Close the program. Start the new v7.11.3. Thats it.

What did I do already?
I checked if I could see any changes in the database using DB Browser SQLite. However, I do not see that starting the new version of focalboard changed the file.
I tried to delete the documents\focalboard folder and replaced the focalboard.db with the old one, which includes all of my projects. It won’t start.

I would appreciate it a lot if anyone could help me to recover my (old) focalboard.db, so I can access my projects.

Thanks!!

solved by copay and paste of the (old) database blocks to the new one via sqlite Studio

Yay! Glad to hear you got it figured out, Spamkg!

Thanks so much for following up to let us know, and welcome to the Mattermost community forums!