Lost Notebook Changes in Synapse Data Science (Microsoft Fabric)

[ellli]

Hello Fabric Community,

I recently encountered an unexpected issue with my notebook in Synapse Data Science (Microsoft Fabric). Despite having AutoSave enabled, I lost all the changes I made over the past few days. Strangely, only a few code snippets from five days ago remain. 🤔

Additionally, I couldn’t find a history tab for my notebook within Fabric.

Has anyone else faced a similar problem? If you’ve found a solution or have insights to share, please join the discussion.

[yongshao]

Tdoay, when opening the notebooks from Fabric, got the message "Your notebooks currently have limited notebook functionality due to network issues. You can still edit, run, and save your notebook, but some features may not be available. Please save your changes and refresh the page to regain full functionality."

After multi refreshing the page, the issue still exists.  What's the network issue, who will fix it? Micrsoft or my company's IT team?

[pdornian]

Chiming in here for lack of better ideas. I've also had some issues with losing notebook work in Fabric. Possibly for different reasons (I think mine were induced by having multiple connections to the same notebook accidentally in a hybrid work accident), but I find the work recovery abilities for notebooks in Fabric subpar. I submitted an 'idea' for Fabric to automatically and/or on demand checkpoint notebooks. This is already a default feature of Jupyter Notebooks and is integrated with notebooks in Azure Machine Learning, but is missing in Fabric notebooks.

Microsoft Idea

AML has a description of its checkpoint behaviour here: Run Jupyter notebooks in your workspace - Azure Machine Learning | Microsoft Learn . I don't see why this wouldn't be implemented for Fabric as well.

[CFoot]

I've faced this issue once myself, and I think I know the root cause. Notebooks will autosave in Fabric, and if you have multiple windows or tabs open in your browser that both have the notebook open, even if you update the notebook in Tab A, if you flip back to Tab B in your browser that has the notebook open, it will autosave that old version of your notebook over the version you've been developing in Tab A, as they both point to the same Notebook in the back-end. 

That was my experience as when I stopped using mutiple broswer tabs I never re-encountered the issue, so I'm working under that assumption.

[v-cboorla-msft]

Hi @ellli 

Thanks for using Microsoft Fabric Community.

Apologies for the issue that you are facing here.
At this time, we are reaching out to the internal team to get some help on this.
We will update you once we hear back from them.

Thanks.

[v-cboorla-msft]

Hi @ellli 

Apologies for the issue you have been facing. 

It's difficult to tell what could be the reason for this performance. Please reach out to our support team so they can do a more thorough investigation on why this it is happening. If its a bug, we will definitely would like to know and properly address it.

Please go ahead and raise a support ticket to reach our support team:

https://support.fabric.microsoft.com/support

After creating a Support ticket please provide the ticket number as it would help us to track for more information.

Thank you.

[v-cboorla-msft]

Hi @ellli 

We haven’t heard from you on the last response and was just checking back to see if you've had a chance to submit a support ticket. If you have, a reference to the ticket number would be greatly appreciated. This will allow us to track the progress of your request and ensure you receive the most efficient support possible.

Thanks