Debugging

Planetary has an extensive debug menu that can be used to perform actions and tweak things that aren't quite polished enough to be in the normal Settings menu. To access these, tap on your profile avatar to reveal the left side menu panel, tap "Settings", scroll to the bottom, and tap "Advanced Settings", then being mindful of the precautionary text under "Dangerous and powerful debug..." tap that to see all debugging options.

Log Access

In the Debug options under the "Operations" section, tap "Export logs" and select an export option.

Export data

In Debug options under the "Operations" section, tap "Export database." Depending on the size of your data it may take several minutes for the app to prepare your data for export. A zip file will be generated and iOS will prompt you with options available to you.

Reset Forked Feed Protection

Forked Feed Protection is a simple fail-safe state used to protect you while Planetary is restoring your data. In certain situations you may need to reset it. If you are in doubt please reach out to our support team and we'll walk you through it.

This option is found under the "Configurations" heading; by tapping on your profile name, then under "Statistics" you'll see the option to "Reset Forked Feed Protection". Planetary keeps track of the total number of posts you have published in your keychain and prevents you from publishing new ones until the restore process matches that number of posts. When restoring is complete, there are rare cases where your local number of posts differs from what others' records show during the data restoration. Tapping on "Reset Forked Feed Protection" removes this fail-safe and allows you to post on Planetary.

Reinstalling

If you delete and reinstall Planetary, your profile's keys will actually still be in the system keychain and Planetary will launch with them and try to redownload your data from the network. If you want to start a new profile you can choose Logout and Onboard from the debug menu.