On my windows laptop I was developing an app that uses a Neo4J database. Recently my laptop died and I was able to pull the majority of files out of my drive. I don’t have any of the specifics about the version I was running. I was using neo4j desktop. Is there a way to rescue the local database from the files alone, manually? If so, what folder or files do I need and what are the steps to recover?
I don't have any real knowledge about the neo4j structure, but when I look at my neo4j desktop installation, I see it is contained in a hidden folder within my library folder. Anyways, there is a Neo4j Desktop folder. Within that there is a dbmss subfolder under Application/relate-data. The dbmss directory has a folder for each database defined in the desktop project. Each looks self contained. I was able to start the server in one using the neo4j-admin tool within its bin folder and access it via a web browser. As such, I would suspect these are the folders you may need to recover.
Thank you very much for this. I will try this out and report back. My computer died a second time so I’m waiting for it to be fixed again.