file seems to reset

[ferdywallinx]

I have a shinyapps application running that loads a shapefile. When someone enters the application and submits changes it saves the shapefile so when someone else or the same person restarts the application the changes are visible. This seemed to work fine, I could see the changes on my own or another device but it seems to reset after some time, so it basically resets the shapefile. How do I turn this setting off that it resets my data?

[andresrcs]

Hi Ferdy, welcome!

Do you have your app deployed in your own server or in shinyapps.io? if the later, then the storage is not persistent in the server side and you have to take another approach.

Could you give us more information about your setup and a reproducible example of your issue? Please have a look at this guide, to see how to create one for a shiny app

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