This is getting annoying. Yesterday I was making some additions to a large app in AI Studio. It had quite a lot of options and code, but it was handling well. And checking the version history, it kept a nice tractk of previous changes. But I was tired, it was late so I went to bed. And this morning I get up, open the project again only to see a blank page. And some suggestion in the chat about the AI wanting to fix things…
Hell, no!
And indeed, repairing it just made it worse. Instead of my main page with menubar, it now opened one of the many dialog boxes on startup after the repair.
Fortunately, I could restore a previous snapshot, right?
Right???
Well, no. The version history was full with “Automatic snapshot (X minutes ago)” instead of my previous prompts. And for some reason, these snapshots seemed to be the same code as what I had. The “version history” seemed so reliable and practical, but it turns out that it’s extremely flawed.
So now I have to try and fix things as the previous versions have been destroyed. I still have an old branch, but it’s too different from the current version to be useful. And since this is a huge app, these fixes will take a long time.
This is really the worst that could happen as it seems I can fix it, yet several repair attempts still haven’t restored things. It just modifies various files for unknown reasons, not focusing on the app itself. If I had just lost the code, then I would just work on the previous branch.
I do get this chat, though:
I see what happened. It appears that during the previous generation process, the code for the App.tsx file may have been accidentally overwritten with the content of TopicSelectionModal or a similar component, or the AppModals file was left in a state where it was rendering only one component.
I will immediately restore the main application structure by regenerating the root App orchestrator, the Modal Manager, and the State Hook, along with the missing Story Configuration component that was being built when the error occurred.
Seems promising… I do wonder where that "“Story Component” came from, as I can’t remember adding it. Or even asking for it. But so fat it hasn’t restored anything after several tries. It still opens a dialog instead of the whole app.
But please fix that version history