Troubleshooting

Recovering your work

• Earlier versions of a file: the History tab shows Git commits, and on macOS Time Machine and document versions.
• Files closed with Don't Save: Settings ▸ Files ▸ Saving ▸ Recover Unsaved Drafts ▸ Open Folder. Each is kept for 30 days, named with the time it was closed.
• After a crash: Typora keeps a journal of unsaved changes, and restores them the next time you open the document.
• A document synced by Typora: see Recovery copies.

Something looks wrong

• After changing a theme: switch to the default in Settings ▸ View, and rename user.css in the Themes folder.
• After installing an extension: turn it off in Settings ▸ Extensions and check its Log. Turn off all of them to rule them out.
• A file shows garbled characters: use File ▸ Reopen with Encoding.
• Blank or black window on Linux: start Typora with --disable-gpu.
• Windows won't start Typora: check the WebView2 Runtime.

Resetting Typora

Your settings, templates, snippets, themes and extensions are in ~/.config/Typora/ (%USERPROFILE%\.config\Typora on Windows). There is no reset button. To start over, quit Typora and move that folder or just settings.toml somewhere safe. A missing file starts from the defaults.

	Application data
macOS	~/Library/Application Support/Typora
Windows	%LOCALAPPDATA%\Typora
Linux	~/.config/io.appmakes.Typora

Logs

Platform	Where
macOS	Console.app, filtered by process:Typora
Windows	%LOCALAPPDATA%\Typora\typora-shell.log
Linux	Start typora from a terminal and read its output

Extensions have their own Log in Settings ▸ Extensions. For the command line, add --verbose.

Reporting a problem

Email hi@typora.io, or open Contact Us in Settings ▸ General. Include your version and system (shown in Settings ▸ General), what you did, what happened, and a sample file if you can.