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Help? (blank screen after computer crashed) (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 month ago by Lin1 to c/perchance
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One day my computer crashed while I was using it and now it's just this. It doesn't work in a normal window but it does work in an Incognito one. I do not know what happened. (I have not touched any code in this AI character chat)

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[–] perchance 2 points 1 month ago (17 children)

Can you press F12 on your keyboard (or Ctrl+Shift+J at the same time) to open the browser console, to see if there are any red error messages there? And if there are, can you screenshot them?

[–] Lin1 1 points 1 month ago (15 children)

There was a few...

[–] perchance 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (14 children)

Can you try logging in to Perchance and then doing the same thing again? From what I can tell, the above errors are mostly related to ads, which run in a separate 'sandbox' so it's not possible for them to be the cause of this. If you log in then there won't be ads, and we'll hopefully see more relevant messages.

Also, can you see something like the below image? If so, please screenshot that too.

It seems like it's getting stuck on one of those "load log" steps, and not making it to the final "load log: finished".

[–] Lin1 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

after logging in this is what I get

[–] perchance 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Thanks for your patience here 🙏 There'd normally be an error message shown, but it looks like it's just stopping at renderThreadList (the "PresentationRequest" error in your screenshot is not relevant here). I've just added some more logs, which should tell me where specifically within renderThreadList the error is occuring. If you can do exactly the same thing as the above screenshot again, that would be great! You should see:

renderThreadList called
renderThreadList: 1
renderThreadList: 2
renderThreadList: 3
...

And the number where it stops will help me narrow down the cause.

[–] Lin1 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

here you go and thank you for helping me (and possibly others).

[–] perchance 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Okay, that was helpful, thank you! New test: Can you try refreshing the page, and then waiting about 20 seconds to see if an "export data" button appears at the top of the screen? If so, click it, and let me know if you see any errors in the console (please screenshot if so), and whether it downloads a ai-character-chat-raw-export.cbor file successfully (let me know file size if so). Please also open the console when it's exporting/downloading and screenshot if you see any errors.

[–] Lin1 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

the button was there, there were no errors but it never exported... it just stays loading

[–] perchance 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Can you please try again now, and also share screenshot of the logs of the process? It'll take about 5 minutes, since it will take a while for it to "give up" on the data that it wasn't able to get. Also can you try going to the "Applications" tab like I describe in this comment:

https://lemmy.world/comment/13719433

[–] Lin1 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

[–] perchance 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Hmm, can you try this:

  • If you currently have the console open, close it with the "x" in the top-right.
  • Then right-clicking in the middle of the page, and selecting "Inspect" in the menu that appears.
  • It'll open up the console thing, but it'll be on the "Elements" tab.
  • Click the "Console" tab and scroll to the bottom, and type/paste this exact text: await db.characters.get(999999999)
  • Then press enter, and let me know if you see "undefined" immediately appear underneath it.
  • If you do see undefined appear, then try pasting it again but change the number to 5 - i.e. await db.characters.get(5)
  • If you see undefined again, try a few different numbers like 10, 20, 50 - we're basically trying to guess the IDs of the characters you had to see if we can get data for them individually.
  • If you don't see anything appear under the original await db.characters.get(999999999) then please let me know. This complicates matters, and we'll need to go "deeper" into Chrome to (hopefully) solve this.
[–] Lin1 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

okay, so I was getting “undefined” and I did find 3 of my characters after doing numbers 1-30.

[–] perchance 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Okay, that's promising.

I've just updated the chat page so you can now export the database with the button that pops up after several seconds when the page fails to load. And then once you've done that (remember it may take 5 minutes):

  • It'll save the export file to your device's download folder
  • You'll notice that a 'delete all data' button appears below the export button, but don't click that yet.
  • Instead, to test that the exported file can be imported successfully, try opening an incognito/private/guest mode browser window, and visit https://perchance.org/ai-character-chat and import that file from your downloads folder using the 'import' button in the left side bar.
  • If it works, then ideally backup the file from your downloads folder to google drive or dropbox or something, just to ensure 100% that you don't lose it, because the next step is to go back to the page where you exported it and click that 'delete all data' button that appeared underneath the export button.
  • Now reload the page, and import the file from your downloads folder using the import button, just like you did in the private browsing window.

The way the export process works is by skipping the 'corrupt' character that's causing the underlying issue - it actually just replaces it with one of your other characters, and then changes its name to 'CORRUPT'. So you'll probably lose at least one of your characters, but you'll still likely have all their chats, so you just need to re-write their name/description/etc.

Hopefully that works, but if not, then please let me know at which point it failed, and any error messages you saw.

[–] Lin1 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

well, it worked, everything is back to normal, I have all but 2 of my characters (they were the corrupt ones but they were new and barely used ones so... idc that I lost them)

!!!Thank you for all the help that you have provided me (and possibly others)!!!

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