Critical Bug - Retool not saving changes

You are welcome! Unless we are experiencing a new issue, all saves should be successful. The loss of progress happens when changes made on one tab are automatically saved but the second tab has not registered these changes yet. The second tab then makes an automatic save, bringing the state of the app back to how it was before changes were made on the first tab. This is why we can recover our progress using 'historyOffset.'

We have an existing feature request for notifying when multiple editor apps are open for the same app. I added your experience to the report.

One way that is easy to get in a multiple editor tab situation is clicking Preview, which opens a new tab, then clicking 'Edit App' on the new tab, which opens the Editor on that tab. I recommend not clicking 'Edit App' on a preview, just close the tab and use the existing Editor tab.

That being said, we will continue monitoring the forum to see if what you experienced is related to a new issue. Please let us know if the issue persists with only one editor tab open at a time.

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