Markers have gone missing

[SlyChameleon]

I'm hoping to get some help for an issue I've been having, and to find out if this is a known issue or if I should be posting this in "issues."

I wish I had more information, but the short version is that my map markers have gone missing. They were there one day, and gone when I pulled the vault back up a few days later. The odd thing is that it appears marker data does exist for one of the 6 maps I had markers on, but they are markers for the wrong map (they are markers for a map that was moved to another vault).

As far as what might have caused the issue, I'm sure it's something I did, but I don't know what exactly may have caused the issue, so I'll post a few things about my setup and actions I took here, and maybe there is an obvious solution.

First, I use google drive to store my obsidian vaults, as I like to access them from two computers. The markers were working just fine between the two computers (once the plugin was installed on the second computer), and I have had no issues working from multiple computers for several weeks.

Second, my markers were pretty basic - they linked to headings in the same note that the map was in.

Third, I have reorganized folders a bit (via obsidian, not manually in file explorer) and I use the plugin in multiple vaults. I suspect shuffling files and reorganizing folders may have something to do with it, but I tried manually exploring the json files in the two vaults in which I use the leaflet plugin, and I cannot find the data (I'm assuming it would be found in the "data" json in the plugin folder).

That's pretty much it. I love the plugin, and will certainly make use of the export feature in the future, but if anyone knows how I might get my markers back, or how I could avoid having them wiped out, I would appreciate any help.

[valentine195]

Hmm, definitely not intended behavior. A few questions:

1. The plugin stores markers to maps by the map id. Did you happen to change these IDs in the code block?
2. If you go to settings and click "Export Marker Data", it will export the stored markers to a CSV file. If you do that, do you see the expected markers in there? (The format may be a little hard to read, sorry, but you should be able to find them via the link).

If they aren't in the exported data, they probably aren't saved anymore. You could always go to the plugin folder (Your Vault/.obsidian/plugins/obsidian-leaflet-plugin and open the data.json file and look - that's where the plugin data is saved, so if its not there its not being read.

I will say that I pushed an update that could have accidentally deleted your markers if you opened a map, closed it, then re-opened it, and if that's the case I'm extremely sorry about that (it is actually what caused issue #123). If you have backups of your vault, the data.json file is probably also getting backed up and you should be able to recover them if you just copy it over.

Edit: I should read your post fully before responding, I see you already talked about looking at the data file.

[SlyChameleon]

Thanks for the quick response!

I love your plugins btw. I'm using the dice roller in addition to the map one for D&D prep and session running, and it's working great (aside from the missing marker snafu).

I don't believe it was your recent update that did this, as I noticed the markers were missing before I updated the plugin (I updated the plugin hoping it would fix the issue).

I did rename one map, because I discovered early on (when making my second map), that the IDs needed to be different. I was getting all the map markers on both maps before I sorted that out. However, most of my maps have had unique IDs from the start, so I don't think that would be the issue.

I just tried exporting, but the marker data is not in there.

I do wish I knew what caused the problem, both to help potentially fix it and/or to help avoid it in the future. I suspect it has something to do with my re-arranging of the vaults I use though. Now that I think about it, I do think I might have done a copy/paste job (in windows explorer) to take folders from one vault and put them into a new separate folder for a new vault, and I might have accidentally moved the plugins folder, or the copy/paste job might have messed it up in some other way. I didn't delete anything that I'm aware of, but this may have messed some things up.

If I do run across the issue again, I'll let you know. Thanks to how easy the plugin is to use, it will not be too much trouble to re-create the markers, and I'll make occasional backups in the future, JUST in case :).

[valentine195]

Thanks. Unfortunately this was almost certainly on my end - the update that would have caused this was 3.17.0 (this specific commit: 150a92a#diff-4fab5baaca5c14d2de62d8d2fceef376ddddcc8e9509d86cfa5643f51b89ce3dR483-R489)