My Albums are gone after updating PG2. What did I do wrong?

[barncrow]

I'm a klutz, and I'm sure I just did something wrong. I installed the newest version of PG2 using a Docker command, and everything worked great, except my albums were gone. How do I make sure I don't do this again with future updates?

Thanks!

[rhatguy]

If you create an album using the web gui there is a button at the bottom called "To .pg2conf". That will output the JSON format of the search query that you created. You can then take that and paste it into a file called .saved_searches.pg2conf in the root of the folder where your pictures are stored.

I edit the file via Nextcloud (since thats how I upload my pictures) and PiGallery2 picks up the file. I've done many PG2 upgrades and have not "lost" a search query.

[
  {
    "name": "entire family saved search query",
    "searchQuery": {
      "type": 1,
      "list": [
        {
          "type": 105,
          "text": "person1 name",
          "matchType": 1
        },
        {
          "type": 105,
          "text": "person2 name",
          "matchType": 1
        },
        {
          "type": 105,
          "text": "person3 name",
          "matchType": 1
        },
        {
          "type": 105,
          "text": "person4 name",
          "matchType": 1
        }
      ]
    }
  }
]

[barncrow]

Thank you! That's very good to know. I'll save all of my searches to file from now on.