Ubuntu crashed. Need to re-install Cryosparc. What will happen to my projects?

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You may reuse the license ID you previously used, provided the “old” installation is disabled permanently.
Be sure to understand why

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and take precautions against the underlying types of events.

Then, you should protect the external hard drive that holds CryoSPARC projects from any write access if/while you install the OS and CryoSPARC.
If, for some reason, you manage to restore the CryoSPARC database, be aware that operation of a restored database that is older than the latest changes in the CryoSPARC project directories may lead to corruption of those project directories. It is therefore safer to start with a blank database, and recreate user info, the worker target(s) (one target in the single workstation case) and project records as described in Warning: Could not get database status (attempt 1/3) - issue after storage outage - #4 by wtempel.
[edited 2024-11-16 regarding reuse of license ID]

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