Does n8n automatically resume a trigger workflow when restarted?

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Hi, I’m using n8n with a polling trigger set to 1 minute, based on changes in an Airtable with a specific base, table, and “last_modified” column. If I turn off n8n and there are changes in Airtable during that time, will n8n automatically sync those changes when it restarts, or will it only detect changes after the “last_modified” column updates again?

  • n8n version: 1.54.3
  • Database (default: SQLite): PosgresDB
  • n8n EXECUTIONS_PROCESS setting (default: own, main): own
  • Running n8n via (Docker, npm, n8n cloud, desktop app): Docker-compose
  • Operating system: EC2
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It looks like your topic is missing some important information. Could you provide the following if applicable.

  • n8n version:
  • Database (default: SQLite):
  • n8n EXECUTIONS_PROCESS setting (default: own, main):
  • Running n8n via (Docker, npm, n8n cloud, desktop app):
  • Operating system:
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It depends on your workflow. If the condition to act is, that it checks if “lastmodified” isn’t older than “now - 1 minute”, then it will only act on those.

if you want to make sure it gets all changed items, you might want to add another field, which is “lastsynced” in which you write the time (“now”) when the item ran through your workflow.
then you only have to check
“lastmodified” isn’t older than “now - 1 minute” AND lastmodified > lastsynced

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