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Trouble previewing backups for urgent client deadline

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A community member is unable to preview backups in Webflow, which is causing issues with an urgent client deadline. They need to copy a component from an older version of the site. Another community member suggests trying to recreate the component or duplicate the project to access the backups. The original poster eventually restores a backup from an hour earlier, which contained the needed component, and then redoes the work lost since then. The community members conclude that the backup preview functionality cannot be relied upon.

Yo Slackers! Has anyone experienced not being able to preview backups? I have an incredibly urgent client deadline and I need to copy a component from an older version of site, but whenever I click on any of the backups I just get the following. (I’ve already emailed Webflow support, but I don’t have the luxury of time to wait for them to respond):

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its just one component? How complicated is the component? Wondering if just recreating it would be faster than waiting for Webflow?

I know, I hate redoing shit too.

Have you tried duplicating the project and seeing if you can grab backups that way?

I dont know of any other things to try, to get backups to work - kind of scary that they aren't working in the first place for you....

Thanks for your response, very much appreciated.

In the end I took a deep breath and restored a backup from an hour previously, (the component existed at that point) then redid all the work I’d lost since. Lesson learnt, do not rely on backup preview functionality.

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