Workflows are overwritten and lost when switching between them with the previous page browser button

[mrdarip]

Describe the problem/error/question

Workflows get overwritten when navigating using browser's back button and saving.

How to replicate

Caution

Use workflows you don't mind losing

1. Enter your workflow "A"
2. Click on "Overview"
3. Enter your workflow "B"
4. Make any modification to Workflow B to trigger the save modal later
5. Use the browser's Back button twice (Workflow B → Overview → Workflow A)
   
6. Click "save" on the save modal

Result: Workflow A gets overwritten with the just saved Workflow B, leading to duplicate "Workflow B" entries and loss of Workflow A.

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Debug info

core

• n8nVersion: 1.75.2
• platform: docker (self-hosted)
• nodeJsVersion: 20.18.1
• database: postgres
• executionMode: regular
• concurrency: -1
• license: enterprise (production) (Althought my settings pane displays community edition)

storage

• success: all
• error: all
• progress: false
• manual: true
• binaryMode: memory

pruning

• enabled: true
• maxAge: 336 hours
• maxCount: 10000 executions

client

• userAgent: mozilla/5.0 (windows nt 10.0; win64; x64) applewebkit/537.36 (khtml, like gecko) chrome/132.0.0.0 safari/537.36
• isTouchDevice: false

Generated at: 2025-01-30T11:17:02.588Z}

[Joffcom]

Hey @mrdarip,

We have created an internal ticket to look into this which we will be tracking as "GHC-672"

[mrdarip]

Could you provide a license to help restore my original workflow, which was lost due to the bug? Since my workflow hadn't been saved for over a day, it's impossible for me to recover it otherwise while maintaining my community license.

[Joffcom]

Hey @mrdarip

A license to use the history feature may not allow you to recover it if it hasn't been recently saved. If you have an execution log of the workflow it can be restored from that or a daily backup of your workflows.