Read code from device

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Posted at 2019-07-25 by sammachin

I've done a dumb thing and realised that the only working copy of some code I have is runnng on a puck, somehow I forgot to save the backup.

Is there any way to get the REPL to print out the current code thats on the device, I tried pocking at the Storage functions but I get an error "Storage" is not defined

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Posted at 2019-07-25 by Robin

Thr 2019.07.25

@sammachin,
Does dump() allow the desired results in the left-hand console panel of the WebIDE?

http://www.espruino.com/Reference#l__global_dump

Note to self: Make backups

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Posted at 2019-07-25 by sammachin

thanks @robin thats what I was looking for!

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Posted at 2019-07-25 by Robin

Glad to see recovery was successful from that unnerving experience!!

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Posted at 2019-07-29 by @gfwilliams

Just a note on this:

If you're written code with save() then dump() will attempt to reconstitute it and the code may not be entirely the same - but is probably 'good enough' :)

If you wrote code with save to flash then dump() will give you the exact code character for character that you uploaded.

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Posted at 2023-07-29 by RobertMcReed

Wow, 4 years down the road and this saved me! Thanks for thinking of everything @gordon! Your devices are so fun to work with.