I cannot browse my files from the IPFS app

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I’ve tried restarting the node and app multiple times

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I just removed my ipfs folders in ~/ and it worked again (But with all my files gone)

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Bit unfortunate that you did not keep a copy of ~/.ipfs – there is a high chance we would be able to debug and recover your data.

Do you remember if you imported anything to your Files via Import → From IPFS
or did anything in command line that involved ipfs files cp ?

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Recovering my data wasn’t an issue since I still had a local copy of everything I added, and no, I didn’t import anything that way (Unless using the companion browser extension counts).

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Ack. If anyone is able to reproduce this, please fill issue in GitHub - ipfs/ipfs-webui: A frontend for an IPFS node. and either attach “problematic” repo to bug report, or share it with me privately.

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I’m having this issue due to ipfs-js not sharing the same repo/config/etc. Uploading programmatically fundamentally uploads to a different location.
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Additionally, running the ipfs desktop means that it places a lock on it and it can’t be shared with ipfs-js while it’s running. Is there any way to solve for this?

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You can use RPC API to talk to an existing daemon. Usually, when folks want to run only one thing, they run ipfs-desktop/go-ipfs and talk to it from CLI or JS RPC Client:

  • CLI: ipfs --api /ip4/127.0.0.1/tcp/5001
  • programmatically in JS with js-ipfs-http-client:
    import { create } from 'ipfs-http-client'
const client = create(new URL('http://127.0.0.1:5001'))
const { cid } = await client.add('Hello world!')
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