What is happening?
Okay so I was trying to get onto AI Character Chat but for some reason I get hit with this error that I've never seen before
Uncaught [object Object] UnknownError Failed to read large IndexedDB value
Unknown Error: Failed to read large IndexedDB value
stack: undefined
line: 0
I have no idea what this means and I don't know what I did to cause this. For those of you who are telling me to just export my data and delete everything, thing is. I already tried importing my data. But then it starts saying stuff about there being characters that "don't exist" and lists a bunch of threads with "nonexistent characters".
This is stressing me out because I fear I might lose ALL of my characters and chats and everything because of this. Is there any way to resolve this or do I have to start all over?
I hate to have to say it, but unfortunately, afaik that error means that either the data is corrupted or it exceeds your device's maximum allowed localstorage capacity. The only thing I can think of would be to try opening the exported file and see if you can figure anything out from there. I tested it and you can unzip the export file using 7zip. Then go into the file folder and find the .json file (it should say something like "perchance-characters-export-2025-11-12.json"), and then right click it to open it in a code editor like Notebook++. (If you aren't able to open it, though, that probably does mean it's corrupted.)
The first section is all of your character cards. (If you're like me and tend to upload your character portraits, it'll have a lot of sections that look like a cat walked across a keyboard as this seems to be how the URL of the uploaded file gets stored for some reason??) Below that, you can find the text of your threads, although actually parsing through them is kind of confusing. But the info should all be there.
If it is a file size issue, then theoretically it might be possible to make the file smaller by removing some of the stuff, but honestly I don't know how to do that without breaking things. But I hope you are able to at least recover some of it!
Hi! A bit of an update to my situation. I made the hard choice of erasing all my data since my characters and everything became basically unrecoverable. Fortunately, I did have most of my characters saved on a Google Doc and I recreated a few of the ones I already had on an incognito tab and I'm going to import them over and start fresh. Not how I wanted this to go, but I had no choice :(