How to prevent files generated by my program from being removed, if viewing from Cover Page?

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So, my program stores some data in a file placed in the file tree, and it gets removed each time I refresh the Cover Page in my browser after running. I have heard this is normal for the Replit Editor, but is there an actual way to prevent that? Perhaps some settings in the .replit file will help?

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Modify the "run" field in the .replit file to execute a command that doesn’t delete the data file. If your program is written in Python and the main file is main.py you can set the “run” field to “python3 main.py”.

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Replit comes with running the command specified in the “run” field each time you refresh the cover page, which might include commands that clean up or reset the project. I hope this helps!

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I see, thanks! I’ll make sure to take a look at the run command

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I believe they meant as in the project writes to files, and they’d like to files not to be erased on a cover page refresh. If this is the case, I’d either recommend using a database, or hosting a website.

Also, the run command does nothing in languages like python (interpreted languages), you must change entrypoint for those.

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make sure that it works, and see if it changes anything.

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Well, we’ll wait and see if it works for them i guess. And if that’s the case, then we just let him know?

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Yes, I agree. It’s definetely better to store the data on a database or something. Any file hosting service will work out too

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If you don’t have much else using your egress, I’d recommend working with ReplDB, though to persist the data, you’ll need a DB proxy.

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This worked, and the file was still there after a refresh. Thank you very much!

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The egrees aren’t being used too much for me, so databases like Firebase or Mongo will be totally fine for me.

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I was just going to suggest ReplDB, which can be egress intensive at times. (In Python: from replit import db)

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I know, will make sure to try this. Thanks anyways!

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ReplDB wouldn’t work as it resets on every ghost fork

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Which is why I mentioned that they would

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