# When exactly are revisions saved?

**URL:** <https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/when-exactly-are-revisions-saved/22984>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [9 January 2022 21:42 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/when-exactly-are-revisions-saved/22984 "2022-01-09T21:42:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![zblesk](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/zblesk/32/11_2.png) [@zblesk](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/zblesk)\
**Post date:** [9 January 2022 21:42 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/when-exactly-are-revisions-saved/22984/1 "2022-01-09T21:42:58Z")

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The web docs say the revisions are saved every 10 minutes. Is that the only criterion?

I've lost some notes because of a plugin, and I don't see them in history. I've made sure to save everything and sync and even restart Joplin before enabling the plugin; I didn't do a backup, relying on the history feature. But there are no revisions. I'd expected a revision to be saved when syncing, or before modification after startup, or something like that.

So my question is: is this the intended behavior? In the future, can I somehow force the creation of a revision? Or is waiting 10 minutes the only way?

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![Daeraxa](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/daeraxa/32/6172_2.png) [@Daeraxa](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/Daeraxa)\
**Post date:** [9 January 2022 21:54 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/when-exactly-are-revisions-saved/22984/2 "2022-01-09T21:54:28Z")

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Not directly an answer to your question but I assembled a guide on [restoring deleted notes](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/restoring-deleted-notes/21304) which you could also use just to double check if your data is actually gone.

To check - you say that you "lost some notes" - do you mean that the entire note has gone or that changes made to a (still existing) note have been lost? The second case is the only one covered by the "in app" note revisions whereas the first requires somewhat more of a manual intervention (as per the guide).

As for backups, I honestly can't recommend the simple backup plugin enough.

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**Author:** ![laurent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce7236/32.png) [@laurent](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/laurent)\
**Post date:** [9 January 2022 22:04 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/when-exactly-are-revisions-saved/22984/3 "2022-01-09T22:04:48Z")

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Did the plugin delete notes? If so it should probably be reported to the plugin repo.

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**Author:** ![zblesk](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/zblesk/32/11_2.png) [@zblesk](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/zblesk)\
**Post date:** [10 January 2022 00:22 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/when-exactly-are-revisions-saved/22984/4 "2022-01-10T00:22:52Z")

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No, it just deleted parts of note texts, not the notes themselves. I've been able to recreate the content since then. (And yes, I do use the backup plugin.)  
This is not some major data loss; I'm just curious if I can improve my use of history.

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**Author:** ![roman\_r\_m](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/roman_r_m/32/3297_2.png) [@roman\_r\_m](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/roman_r_m)\
**Post date:** [10 January 2022 09:05 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/when-exactly-are-revisions-saved/22984/5 "2022-01-10T09:05:32Z")

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Could be this [Joplin appears to silently stop saving note history when it doesn't like some note contents · Issue #5531 · laurent22/joplin · GitHub](https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/issues/5531)

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/uploads/cozic/original/3X/1/c/1c948e33314e232a0927789508474d8624f4270b.png) [@system](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [9 February 2022 09:05 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/when-exactly-are-revisions-saved/22984/6 "2022-02-09T09:05:43Z")

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