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Anton Cheng
Anton Cheng

Reputation: 742

How to retrieve lost file from IPFS?

Couple weeks ago I try spin up a local IPFS node, publish a file, and were able to access it via publish gateway. I thought the file would have been store by a lots of nodes, so I deleted it from my local machine, now I can't access the file via the ID (QmNvxsaXqWoLR1NNJpiRXTEo57ptyg3CjSGBrgeyiyFiPm) anymore.

I noticed that I can still somehow access the data from the webui, but only able to see the raw data instead of the files. Is there any way to retrieve the file?

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Answers (1)

Discordian
Discordian

Reputation: 772

I actually can retrieve this CID via a simple ipfs cat QmNvxsaXqWoLR1NNJpiRXTEo57ptyg3CjSGBrgeyiyFiPm:

{
  "0x9a39f286e1cd710da14e45ac124e38f2b6242622": "4.705",
  "0x7c981d31b2ab65ce9f9cce49feac9e9e11e8ca64": "0.174481",
  "0xa83cdaaadbb0e01d5de8df4a670947eacbb11f7e": "0.860812",
  "0x445f4b54039cb1f86644351f2ef324c6876f6d76": "0.036128",
  "0x29eab4341629aa1ae5e996f76ea0750548311ecf": "5.4",
  "0xbbccf6cab5b3aec26b0cbc6095b5b6ddbacfd59a": "17.172011",
  "0x33d5ae030cf11723f9b34ecc6fe5cfe00c6dc133": "0.001909",
  "0x03886228bb749eeba43426d2d6b70eba472f4876": "6.8",
  "0x1eb8e88a563fde7b3b8ebbbb0e1ac117c3d80800": "1821.138157",
  "0x62ba33ccc4a404456e388456c332d871dae7ae9e": "0.000145",
  "0x63e62588330657c99ba79139e7c21af0c0db1e7e": "12.560212",
  "0xcd45fdaa6a72740e1d092f458213ff39d3d94a10": "280.592062",
  "0xb92667e34cb6753449adf464f18ce1833caf26e0": "0.647424",
  "0x9a5179e08acf37b3d84c9a0c0d6f3ea2417f9175": "10.097725",
  "0xc43cffc5db578879cc5d0d4cfe07ad514c934d3b": "6.365907",
  "0x34915628fc56ae8ff6684be39462e7ba398164b8": "0.00069",
  "0x47e2bc7475ef8a9a5e10aef076da53d3c446291e": "5.305",
  "0xf432d70c941ebe657ca8cff0b70d1649d5781eea": "0.153823",
  "0xff90d66d41fc97b223e8005dba51635b5d49632b": "0.002298",
  "0x1cf41ad63f67f3e7f8a1db240d812f5392b9a9c4": "6.05013",
  "0xc418aaa0d1e018ded3efc0f72a089519b3d58683": "0.179902",
  "0x7d209486a3562fe406b72d65b3703884c50bac81": "2.191224",
  "0xe782657a1043062087232b3c20c4d25e2a982cb3": "0.110927",
  "0xd998e5a4777e1b47c1441a88bb553cbf16802e4c": "0.095045",
  "0x9f3ef50ea64adad5b33f1f8222760cfbf42007f7": "0.069055",
  "0x40c1efa324fd80329117409c65081f13e7a08a42": "2790.399058",
  "0x9ef8c5ae4a320ef0984695af9a85d07f5be13792": "0.139741",
  "0xf46422c1b6c2135dbca9b55771fd6e7869a8691c": "995.479262",
  "0xf6f3bc09782d3c0df474eb3cec5cac8423bfedf3": "0.00012",
  "0x4f2769e87c7d96ed9ca72084845ee05e7de5dda2": "0.000509",
  "0x92f1e9a52c1a81fdb76ee6477c0c605917cddbe5": "0.811623",
  "0x1e6424a481e6404ed2858d540aec37399671f5e0": "19253.760913",
  "0xc9b2c3a6a8e1896aadcf236b88019c7574d75069": "781.127767",
  "0xb08f95dbc639621dbaf48a472ae8fce0f6f56a6e": "34.704074"
}

I thought the file would have been store by a lots of nodes, so I deleted it from my local machine

It's important to note that data is only stored by other nodes temporarily if they access the content themselves. If you want data to live reliably longterm, you can use a pinning service like Pinata, as you're paying them to keep your data pinned.

Otherwise you have to rely on other nodes pinning your data to ensure it remains available.

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