Accidentally deleted
I just deleted rather than retired a recipe. How do I restore it?
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Hello @Burnedbutter ,
Unfortunately, we have no way of retrieving a deleted recipes, as it deletes it from your diary entries as well.
Regards,
Marie-EveMarie-Eve
cronometer.com
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Disappointing, but thanks
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I just accidently "deleted" a recipe rather than "retiring" it. And this deletes it from my past diary entries, which means any of my daily records are now potentially wrong, since I don't know which days had the deleted recipe, which kinda invalidates my entire history. This is a bit upsetting given the time and effort I put into this. I think it's poor design to have a simple user mistake carry wide-ranging irreversible consequences.
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One possibility would be to regularly export your data.
I feel like Cronometer already did what they could to help prevent accidents.
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Thank you that suggestion, Seir! I didn't know about that capability (excellent feature Cronometer!) and I'll do that going forward on a regular basis.
Regarding what more Cronometer could do, look at services from Google/Microsoft/Apple as an example. Google Docs has an undo option on everything. It also automatically records past versions of your work. On Apple photos, I accidently deleted a photo, and that photo was automatically still available for a short period of time in the "Recently Deleted" folder.
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Logically it does not make sense to delete an entry in the diary just because the recipe is deleted. Are you thinking that food eaten a week ago as posted in my diary, will transport the absorbed calories and nutrients out of my body? An interesting way to lose weight!
What is Cronometers thinking here i.e. the rational logical explanation for why diary entries are deleted? -
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I continually make recipes for one off items eg. chicken stir fry. Maybe two or three meals and then I will never use it again, as it is unlikely I'll have all those ingredients on hand the next time I do a chicken stir fry. So I end up with hundreds of unneeded recipes. I guess this is the point of retiring rather than deleting. I guess I am not understanding deleting at all, since it deletes recipes from your diary entries which detroys the usefullness of Cronometer. Why not just retire? Why do you have an option to delete past diary entries?
