# History is missing
**URL:** https://help.galaxyproject.org/t/history-is-missing/9567
**Category:** usegalaxy.eu support
**Tags:** server-status
**Created:** [March 5, 2023, 5:44pm UTC](https://help.galaxyproject.org/t/history-is-missing/9567 "2023-03-05T17:44:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 19
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### Author:  [@biotemon](https://help.galaxyproject.org/u/biotemon)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2023, 5:44pm UTC](https://help.galaxyproject.org/t/history-is-missing/9567/1 "2023-03-05T17:44:03Z")
Yesterday I had a project in my account in perfect condition. Today I log in and all I find is: “This history is empty. You can load your own data or get data from an external source”.
What can I do to recover my history?
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### Author:  [@Francisco\_Hernandez1](https://help.galaxyproject.org/u/Francisco_Hernandez1)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2023, 5:54pm UTC](https://help.galaxyproject.org/t/history-is-missing/9567/2 "2023-03-05T17:54:48Z")
I am having the same issue. Any solution?
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### Author:  [@Mary\_Snook](https://help.galaxyproject.org/u/Mary_Snook)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2023, 7:58pm UTC](https://help.galaxyproject.org/t/history-is-missing/9567/3 "2023-03-05T19:58:38Z")
Same thing happened to me this morning… all my histories are empty, but still say they contain items when I look at the list of histories. I tried “resume all paused jobs” and “unhide all hidden content” but nothing has happened.
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### Author:  [@wm75](https://help.galaxyproject.org/u/wm75)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2023, 9:19pm UTC](https://help.galaxyproject.org/t/history-is-missing/9567/4 "2023-03-05T21:19:20Z")
[usegalaxy.eu](http://usegalaxy.eu) is currently getting prepared for the update to the latest release of Galaxy.
This causes a bit more issues than expected, and we’re sorry for the inconvenience.
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### Author:  [@wm75](https://help.galaxyproject.org/u/wm75)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2023, 4:26pm UTC](https://help.galaxyproject.org/t/history-is-missing/9567/5 "2023-03-06T16:26:40Z")
This issue has been dealt with. Sorry again for the inconvenience.
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### Author:  [@dfplazag](https://help.galaxyproject.org/u/dfplazag)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2023, 9:21am UTC](https://help.galaxyproject.org/t/history-is-missing/9567/6 "2023-03-07T09:21:32Z")
Hi, since a few days I have no access to my old workflows (I see the wfs in my wf list but I can’t edit them). Is it also related to the release update? Thanks for your help!
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### Author:  [@wm75](https://help.galaxyproject.org/u/wm75)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2023, 9:37am UTC](https://help.galaxyproject.org/t/history-is-missing/9567/7 "2023-03-07T09:37:04Z")
@dfplazag interesting. We haven’t gotten any other such reports, and it’s not all of your workflows but just specific ones, correct?
I would be interested in debugging this case, but for this I would need to share your problematic WFs with a few developers. Simplest way to do so would be to make them temporarily accessible via sharable links. Is that acceptable for you?
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### Author:  [@Genevieve\_Diedericks](https://help.galaxyproject.org/u/Genevieve_Diedericks)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2023, 9:46am UTC](https://help.galaxyproject.org/t/history-is-missing/9567/8 "2023-03-07T09:46:25Z")
Hi, I imported a history from #[galaxy.org](http://galaxy.org) to [galaxy.eu](http://galaxy.eu) and although it imported without any errors, when I open it all the datasets are empty and shaded in blue saying “This dataset is remote, has not been ingested by Galaxy, and full metadata may not be available”. I checked the exported history from [galaxy.org](http://galaxy.org) and everything is good there (in"green"). Any ideas why this could be the case?
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### Author:  [@wm75](https://help.galaxyproject.org/u/wm75)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2023, 9:48am UTC](https://help.galaxyproject.org/t/history-is-missing/9567/9 "2023-03-07T09:48:34Z")
@Genevieve_Diedericks can you please open a separate issue for this?
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### Author:  [@dfplazag](https://help.galaxyproject.org/u/dfplazag)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2023, 9:49am UTC](https://help.galaxyproject.org/t/history-is-missing/9567/10 "2023-03-07T09:49:04Z")
It happens with all my wfs, actually. They never fully load in the editing window even though I can still see all the steps under “View”. I can also download all the wfs. Just no possibility of editing. I could share one via link but the problem affects them all. I also logged out and in again, still no editing.
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### Author:  [@dfplazag](https://help.galaxyproject.org/u/dfplazag)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2023, 9:50am UTC](https://help.galaxyproject.org/t/history-is-missing/9567/11 "2023-03-07T09:50:36Z")
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### Author:  [@wm75](https://help.galaxyproject.org/u/wm75)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2023, 9:53am UTC](https://help.galaxyproject.org/t/history-is-missing/9567/12 "2023-03-07T09:53:37Z")
So, can I just share the WF you’re showing?
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### Author:  [@Genevieve\_Diedericks](https://help.galaxyproject.org/u/Genevieve_Diedericks)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2023, 9:54am UTC](https://help.galaxyproject.org/t/history-is-missing/9567/13 "2023-03-07T09:54:29Z")
@wm75 sure
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### Author:  [@dfplazag](https://help.galaxyproject.org/u/dfplazag)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2023, 10:38am UTC](https://help.galaxyproject.org/t/history-is-missing/9567/14 "2023-03-07T10:38:13Z")
Would it be okay if I share the wf link privately and not in this thread? Is there a way to do that?
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### Author:  [@wm75](https://help.galaxyproject.org/u/wm75)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2023, 10:43am UTC](https://help.galaxyproject.org/t/history-is-missing/9567/15 "2023-03-07T10:43:49Z")
Yes, see my direct message 🙂
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### Author:  [@dfplazag](https://help.galaxyproject.org/u/dfplazag)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2023, 10:53am UTC](https://help.galaxyproject.org/t/history-is-missing/9567/16 "2023-03-07T10:53:44Z")
Thanks a lot Wolfgang, I just sent you the wf link to your UniFreiburg email address!!
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### Author:  [@wm75](https://help.galaxyproject.org/u/wm75)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2023, 3:05pm UTC](https://help.galaxyproject.org/t/history-is-missing/9567/17 "2023-03-07T15:05:10Z")
This has to do with the size and complexity of your WF. We’ve found a relatively small (compared to your) WF, which has the same problem, and now have an issue for this: [Large workflows are not rendering in workflow editor · Issue #15727 · galaxyproject/galaxy · GitHub](https://github.com/galaxyproject/galaxy/issues/15727), but fixing is not trivial.
To explain: the WF editor is a component that received a major rewrite in the new release, but nobody tested against WFs the size of yours (if you have a small WF or you create one, it should be opening in the editor just fine).
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### Author:  [@dfplazag](https://help.galaxyproject.org/u/dfplazag)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2023, 8:20am UTC](https://help.galaxyproject.org/t/history-is-missing/9567/18 "2023-03-08T08:20:03Z")
Thanks Wolfgang, any chance I could edit the wf in a legacy version of Galaxy (where the editing for this wf size used to work just fine)?
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### Author:  [@wm75](https://help.galaxyproject.org/u/wm75)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2023, 9:16am UTC](https://help.galaxyproject.org/t/history-is-missing/9567/19 "2023-03-08T09:16:31Z")
Well, not easily because you’d need a server that has all tools in your WF installed:(
What you could try, if you feel confident enough, is to edit the downloaded WF file in a text editor and shrink it to a size that’s loadable, but admittedly far from ideal.
If it’s just a small modification that you want to do, doing this via a text editor might be feasible though.
If you only want to extend your current WF (not modify existing steps), you can also create a new WF and embed your existing one as a sub-WF into it (because it’s really _just_ the editor not being able to show all the connection between steps, and a sub-WF will show as a single box).
Finally, but much(!) harder, you could set up your own small Galaxy 22.05 instance on a local computer, install necessary tools and edit the WF locally - kind of a last resort option.
Sorry that I don’t have any better solutions right now.