I’m building a story grid in Outliner view. I just fat fingered into a populated custom metadata field and tabbed a few times on mental autopilot (used to navigating between columns in Excel with Tab). All text was deleted and Ctrl-Z/ Undo doesn’t restore. Pretty sure I clicked into the field/cell next to the one I deleted from but didn’t make any changes.
Any magic tricks to get deleted metadata text back?
Unlikely, but hopeful. If not, I’m nervous and might export to CSV and work from Excel instead. What I’m realizing is that, by default, all text is selected when you click into a field, and if you inadvertently key anything, text is lost. No safety net if ctrl-z doesn’t work or doesn’t ‘remember’ enough clicks back to Undo to–if that makes sense.
I found a similar bug report for MacOS from 2021. Not exactly the same issue but pretty close. Maybe this is known issue? ( Bug - Undoing Metadata input in Outliner cannot be Redone )
Thanks!
That is correct, there is no high level undo that would work across different fields in a global fashion throughout the software. It would take quite an effort to make that possible, given nothing in the kit works that way. It’s not like a spreadsheet, which is a single document, it’s more like a database or a form—at least in terms of how the GUI operates. I don’t think there is anyone that would argue for it working the way it does, on purpose, but it’s one of those things that would take such an effort to accomplish, we could probably fix hundreds of other things in the meanwhile.
Was it new data, or something that has been around since before today? If so, you can probably recover it from a recent backup.
Incidentally, the outliner is supposed to work way better than it does.
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Thank you for the quick response! Kinda figured. Good to know Outliner nav is supposed to function in a more familiar way. Got complacent on shut-down backups, and I’ll take the Universe head slap to be a better saver–coulda been so much worse.
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