I have an issue with macos 15.5 and updating the package n8n doesn’t run anymore (rest works). On another machine with macos 15.4.4 it runs (and updates) fine.
I can’t find a way to find and copy the n8n workflows out of the package to copy it to the other machine. docker cp (n8n container name) only copies log files and docker shows path /var/lib/docker/… but does not exist on my machine (also as su) docker volume list shows : local local-ai-packaged_n8n_storage
but how to access I can’t find a way.
Can somebody help
Thanks
Hey,
you can export the workflows via CLI:
docker exec n8n sh -c "n8n export:workflow --backup --output=/backup/workflows/
not familiar with CLI i tried it and terminal changes to:
dquote>
awaiting input i think (nothing beeing copied)
trying: docker exec n8n sh -c "n8n export:workflow --backup --output=/backup/workflows/
in that I get an error that the container is not running which is true and exactly my problem it does not run anymore can’t get it to run (update not working) and I ry to get the workflows out, here the terminal output:
(base) uwesommer@Mac ~ % docker exec n8n sh -c "n8n export:workflow --backup --output=/n8n-backup/
dquote> docker exec n8n sh -c "n8n export:workflow --backup --output=/backup/workflows/
Error response from daemon: container 684f000ceb87dfb7a8ea7403df00a0a4bcf5e14863412e02ec4984a66eeb500a is not running
(base) uwesommer@Mac ~ %
thank you
ok, but your docker-desktop is working? You can download the sqldatabase and open it with a sql-db-viewer. there you find the workflows etc.
there is no sqldatabase as usual, local-ai-packaged seem to use supabase to store it. found the tables but no clue how to “export” it or to get it out. tried export to sql or csv of a row (workflow) and converted into .json in vsc but no luck unsupported file format …
fixed got it as sql and converted it
thanks
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