Homarr not storing customizations.
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Mysterious-Park9524 · 2023-10-19 20:13

I've gone through and setup a Homarr dashboard with a number of
customizations. I exited the edit mode before leaving. When I start up
the container is comes up with all the original defaults. I don't live
in Paris for example and all my custom docker container icons are no
longer there.

Any thoughts?

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thekrautboy · 2023-10-19 20:21

> Any thoughts?

How long is a jiffy?

But also, you probably didnt set up your Docker container properly and
it doesnt save persistent data. By nature containers are ephemeral,
meaning you stop them and they are gone. If you want to keep specific
data you need to save that on the Docker host.

Projects like Homarr mention which paths inside the container image
should be mapped to the host in order to save those things like
settings.

You simply need to follow that.

Without any additional info thats all.

For the future, "it doesnt work" is not great, try to provide exact
details of your setup, what youre doing and what the outcome is
(errors messages, logs, etc). That saves a lot of time for people
trying to help you, but also for yourself. And fyi this here is not a
techsupport subreddit. For specific questions about Docker issues i
would suggest /r/Docker as example, and for Homarr itself the ideal
place is their [Github page](https://github.com/ajnart/homarr/issues).

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Mysterious-Park9524 · 2023-10-19 20:56

Here is the docker-compose.yml file I used to set it up. In all my
other container docker-compose.yml file persistent storage is
contained in it:

docker-compose.yml
version: '3'
\#--------------------------------------------------------------------
-#
\#     Homarr - A simple, yet powerful dashboard for your server.
#
\#--------------------------------------------------------------------
-#
services:
  homarr:
container\_name: homarr
image: ghcr.io/ajnart/homarr:latest
restart: unless-stopped
volumes:
\- ./homarr/configs:/app/data/configs
\- ./homarr/icons:/app/public/icons
ports:
\- '7575:7575'

So when I see /app/data/configs I assumed that was where the
configuration changes are stored.

Does your docker-compose file differ?

Thanks for the feedback.

Glenn...

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thekrautboy · 2023-10-19 21:13

volumes:
      - ./homarr/configs:/app/data/configs
      - ./homarr/icons:/app/public/icons

After checking the Homarr documentation, this looks correct to me.

If your settings still disappeared after a container restart it could
(imo) be two things:

*  your data got corrupted on the host for a variety of reasons

* its a bug in Homarr or Docker

So once again:

> For specific questions about Docker issues i would suggest /r/Docker
as example, and for Homarr itself the ideal place is their [Github
page](https://github.com/ajnart/homarr/issues).

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Mysterious-Park9524 · 2023-10-19 21:43

I'm switching over to their Discord. I see others have a similar
issue.

Thanks again.

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IVOreosFromHeaven · 2023-10-20 02:19

Permissions issue? Possibly Homarr cannot write to the configs to the
file? Have you checked the container logs?

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Manicraft1001 · 2023-10-29 17:30

Hi OP u/Mysterious-Park9524 , were you able to resolve this issue
already? I'm one of the maintainers of Homarr and saw your post here.
If not, please open a discussion on our GitHub page or Discord server.
Let me know if you have any questions!

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Mysterious-Park9524 · 2023-10-29 19:23

Yes, got it soled and Homarr is working like a charm. Turned out to be
pilot error. I had a filter working and forgot to turn it off.

Thanks for reaching out to check.

G...

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xnudev · 2023-11-04 19:39

How did you fix this?

Currently having this issue with Podman and triple checked permissions
and verified RW on `/app/data/configs` bind mount. Don’t think I’m
running a “filter” or anything that breaks it.

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To Dev: Posting this before opening issue on the off chance it’s
another pilot error with me…

Functionality currently failing (all have no logs):

-       **Disabe Edit Mode** *(EDIT_MODE_PASSWORD set)*
-       **Save New Copy of Config** *(modal.events.configNotCopied
error triggered)*
-       **Delete config** *(Config Delete Failed)*
-       **App Edit Mode | Enter / Exit & Save** *(simply reverts
changes)*