Local DB - Will App Updates/New Releases Overwrite This Table?

Questions about Thunkable
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  1. I have an app that has default settings stored in a Local DB. We will call it “Local_DB_1”.

  2. User installs v1 of app and changes default settings stored in Local_DB_1.

  3. User updates to v2 of same app. Does updating app OVERWRITE Local_DB_1 with defaults or will users settings still be there?

This question ONLY has to do with what happens to Local_DB_1. I’m not looking for registration suggestions and storing in another offline table. I ONLY want to know what happens to Local_DB_1 with the scenario described above.

Thanks.

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Thanks for the clear questions @knownkeep!

As long as you’re working from the exact same Thunkable project (not a copy) and you’re incrementing the build number (or doing it automatically) then the data will be fine.

You can even build a simple sample app to test this out too.

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Thank you @domhnallohanlon.

I think the piece I may have missed in testing was incrementing the build number. I’ll do some further testing. Thank you.

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…or something unexpected happens. And no, we did not clone our projects to create a new ID for them. Instead, it was at the time Thunkable updated something in its backend:

We hope it was the last time it happened.