Workflow was changed by someone else error

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Workflow was changed by someone else Someone saved this workflow while you were editing it. You can view their version (in new tab). Overwrite their changes with yours? Issue

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Having an issue with this message: Workflow was changed by someone else Someone saved this workflow while you were editing it. You can view their version (in new tab). Overwrite their changes with yours? appearing while I am trying to edit a workflow. I do not have this workflow open in another tab or window and there are no other users using this workflow while this error appears. Any ideas on how to fix this issue? I have tried restarting the container on the host and did not have any luck there.

Information on your n8n setup

  • n8n version: 2.11.3
  • Database (default: SQLite): default
  • n8n EXECUTIONS_PROCESS setting (default: own, main): default
  • Running n8n via (Docker, npm, n8n cloud, desktop app): Docker

**Update:
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It now appears to be impacting this whole n8n instance.

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Hi @jeandeaux Welcome! i have personally faced this on the cloud instance due to latency but on your self hosted one this can happen due to multiple sessions opened in the same machine although what i would say is that make sure you are accessing n8n via one browser at a time, and also make sure to choose a very good VPS provider as this only happens due to latency.

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Hello @Anshul_Namdev and thank you for your response. After attempting to restart the container and then run n8n in a different browser, I ended up recreating the workflow from scratch. Not the ideal solution but it seemed as though the workflow itself was corrupted or something since uploading that json file separate from the original workflow led to the same issue. For now, the best way around this issue is recreating the workflow from scratch.

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