I used /admin/customize/site_texts to customize a lot of text. Then I updated a plugin and rebuilt the app, now all the customizations are gone and I don’t know how to retrieve them. I backup the site daily. What would you do?
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Lost Custom Translations Issue
User Krischan reported losing all custom translations after updating a plugin and rebuilding the app, despite daily backups. cpradio noted a possible connection to non-English languages, as similar issues were reported with Russian.
Krischan confirmed using German, and shared additional context about an upgrade process that was killed due to “variable conflicts” errors. zogstrip suggested investigating a potential issue with the migration from site_text to translation_overrides.
Axp provided a temporary fix to restore custom texts, involving a method outlined in a meta discourse thread. However, this fix may not be permanent, and custom texts may be lost again after the next upgrade or rebuild. Mittineague wondered if a cache issue could be involved in the problem.
What language are you using? All prior accounts of this issue were using Russian, I think.
I use the German language.
Okay, so non-english. That’s at least something consistent with other reports.
Don’t know, if this is connected: But I started the process here /admin/upgrade to upgrade a plugin. This upgrade process was killed. Before there were a lot of error messages along the lines of “variable conflicts”. I then rebuilt the app in my terminal window - and the custom texts were gone.
@eviltrout could it be that the migration from site_text to translation_overrides is missing some cases?
Try this method and all custom texts should be returned:
https://meta.discourse.org/t/customize-all-text-in-discourse/36092/11
It is a temporary fix I hope because after next upgrade/rebuild you will lose custom texts again 
P.S. Rebuilding is not neccesary in this case.
I admit I have absolutely no idea, but I’m wondering if some kind of cache issue is involved here?