I’m starting with an assumption that you are the only person who has access to the instance of n8n, and it’s not just someone else who thinks they’re editing a different workflow, but is actually editing the same one you are.
I noticed this happening before and found the same workflow open in one of my dozens of open browser windows. As far as I know, the n8n editor doesn’t auto-save, but somehow closing all but one window/tab for the n8n editor, clearing cache, and restarting the browser made the old version stop showing up.
If you don’t find duplicate browsers with the same workflow open, and/or the old one keeps showing up after you restart/clear the browser(s), you could also poke around in the n8n database (at your own risk) and see if there might be duplicate records for the same workflow. This seems unlikely since there is a primary key index on the id column (at least if the db is postgres… pk_workflow_entity_id), but still may be worth a look to see if you can spot what’s going on.
I agree with these comments. Either another user on the same login is overriding your progress, or perhaps you have multiple tabs open of the same workflow.
I agree with the above comments. There are cases where N8N opens a workflow in a new tab in the browser. If you make changes to a workflow in the new tab but the previous tab has the same workflow open, this can happen.
There’s no need to clear cache, just close the previous tab.
Unfortunately the issue remains even after closing tabs etc. It takes it back to a version of the workflow that is more than a week old. I have filed a bug ticket
We have the same issue. This has been happening for about a week. All of our changes are reverting back the next day. Self Hosted. Version 1.68.1.
Only 1 user. Main changes are GPT Model 4.1 reverts back to 4o. Renamed Nodes revert back to Node1, Node2. etc. Some new updates have been erased over a few days. This is a new issue. We have been using n8n for at least 6 months.