**Accidentally deleted a Relation/Property — data intact in objectstore, need recovery path**

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What do you need help with?

I accidentally deleted a Property called “Linked Projects” from my Space today (June 11, 2026). It was used across many Task objects to link them to Project objects. It does not appear in Bin and is not visible in Content Model → Properties.

What I’ve already investigated:

I located my local data at C:\Users\[user]\AppData\Roaming\anytype\data\[spaceID]\objectstore and scanned the backup with PowerShell. The relation definition is fully intact in the objectstore database. Specifically:

  • Internal ID: _brlinkedProjects
  • Relation key: linkedProjects
  • Unique key: rel-linkedProjects
  • Format: Object, pointing to _otproject (Project type)
  • Applied to: _ottask objects
  • NOT marked as deleted in the backup

The orphaned link values are also still visible on individual Task objects — they appear under the generic “Links” section on each task, meaning the actual pointer data was not wiped, just the relation definition.

What I tried:

I recreated a new Property called “Linked Projects” with the same Object type pointing to Projects. The column appeared in my database view but the orphaned values did not reconnect, which suggests Anytype assigned a different internal key than the original linkedProjects.

My questions:

  1. Is there any way to restore or re-register the original relation definition from the objectstore data, so the existing values on Task objects reconnect automatically?
  2. Is there a way to manually set or edit the relation key of a newly created property to match the original linkedProjects?
  3. Does Anytype’s sync infrastructure retain any server-side snapshot that could be used for recovery?

I have a full backup of the space data folder taken before any further changes. Happy to share more technical details if helpful. Thanks.

OS

Windows 11 v 25h2

Anytype Version

v0.50.8

Network Mode

anysync

Technical Information

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It’s strange that it didn’t display in the bin. Sometimes you have to scroll down (almost all the way) to look for it. This can happen due to date-related properties in how it gets filtered in the bin. That being said, you’re on an older version of Anytype and we’ve redesigned the Bin since then, so it’s a little difficult for me to remember what the previous Bin was like.

Let me know if you can find it at the bottom of the bin? Usually nothing gets deleted permanently unless you explicitly did so via the Bin.