Octoprint restore from backup with plugin

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What is the problem?

Octoprint plugin will not allow restore from previous backup. I went to update to the new Octopi version and decides to create a fresh install on another SD card. I made a backup of the instance I am using and downloaded it to my Mac. On the setup of the new instance it asked if I wanted to restore from backup, I said yes and went to the folder. No files in that backup are selectable. Is the backup/Restore plugin supposed to read the backup or is there something else I need to be doing

What did you already try to solve it?

searched the forums and see many manual SSH solutions. There was a thread that talked about dropping the files into the location on the SD card. Need some help there.

Have you tried running in safe mode?

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Did running in safe mode solve the problem?

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Complete Logs

octoprint.log, serial.log or output on terminal tab at a minimum, browser error console if UI issue ... no logs, no support! Not log excerpts, complete logs.)

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Additional information about your setup

OctoPrint version, OctoPi version, printer, firmware, browser, operating system, ... as much data as possible

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The backup should be the whole zip file that you downloaded, and not extracted.

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Thanks, After some additional searching I see that if there are time-lapses in the backup it may fail. I have recreated the backup and it is much smaller now. i will try it tomorrow after a long print finishes. Thanks

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worked. thank you

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For some reasons, when downloaded, the backup file was extracted into a folder with basedir, metadata.json, and plugin_list.json. So how can it still be restored?

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I think that's a mac os thing I read about. Your machine is automatically extracting the zip file. Zip it back up and all those contents is what it meets to recreate.

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Yes, certainly. And to disable it, uncheck "Open "safe" files after downloading" in Safari preferences > General as in the picture:–

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But the issue persists. If interested, here is the thread ---> Octoprint Restore is not working