The new update destroyed all previous system prompts!

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It seems that a few days ago when “Gemini 2.0 Flash (Image Generation) Experimental
gemini-2.0-flash-exp-image-generation, alias that points to gemini-2.0-flash-exp” got released, it got automatically applied to all models, destroying all prompts in the process:

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Had the same problem

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All prompts are stored in your GDrive/AI Studio/ folder. So when a new model replaces the old one, all you need to do is:

  1. Temporarily disable auto-saving in AI Studio’s settings to prevent it from accidentally overwriting your conversation file.
  2. Back up all conversations from the GDrive/AI Studio/ folder.
  3. Open the files with any editor that supports JSON schema (Notepad++, VS Code, etc).
  4. Find the “systemInstruction” field - this is where your system prompt is stored.

The only downside of this approach is that the data is stored in raw format, so you’ll need to clean it up by removing “\n” 's characters and reformatting it.

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Many thanks for your detailed answer.