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Desktop builds on Windows fail to restart after updating, storage is locked / corrupted
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A-Electron
A-Storage
O-Uncommon
S-Critical
T-Defect
Z-Windows
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Description
We've had some reports of issues with desktop builds on Windows failing to restart correctly after an update.
The parent process of the old version is left behind, and also keeps the underlying datastore backing IndexedDB locked, so the new version is unable to read from it, and thinks your session data is lost.
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