LimeSurvey version: 5.x (Community Edition)
(Exact version unknown, self-hosted university installation – shown in the admin footer)
Own server or LimeSurvey Cloud:
Own server (self-hosted, University of Innsbruck installation)
Survey theme/template:
Default LimeSurvey theme (no custom template)
LimeSurvey Community Edition
Version 6.15.4
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Hello LimeSurvey community,I’m using LimeSurvey Community Edition (self-hosted) and ran into a problem with already collected data.What happened:
I collected several responses.
Before exporting the data for the first time, I changed answer options in a multiple-choice question.
After exporting the data, the MC responses were missing in SPSS.
I managed to restore almost all data by re-entering the old answer codes manually.
However, free-text responses (text input field shown conditionally after a specific answer option) are still missing in the export – those cells remain empty.
Problem:
I can no longer find the old answer option ID / label that this free-text field was linked to.
Unfortunately:
I overwrote the question syntax,
I cannot find any previous version,
and I cannot locate any document that stores the former labels.
My question to the community:
Is there any place in LimeSurvey or the database where old answer labels / IDs might still be stored?
Is there any way to recover the text responses if the answer option they were linked to was changed?
Or are those text entries irreversibly lost once the corresponding answer code changes?
I’m already very happy that I could recover most of the data — it’s really just the written text answers I’m still hoping to retrieve 🙂Any ideas or experiences would be greatly appreciated!Best wishes
Liane
