# Unpublished Bug

**URL:** <https://talk.observablehq.com/t/unpublished-bug/4983>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [April 27, 2021, 12:22am UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/unpublished-bug/4983 "2021-04-27T00:22:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![liukui17](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/71c47a/32.png) [@liukui17](https://talk.observablehq.com/u/liukui17)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2021, 12:22am UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/unpublished-bug/4983/1 "2021-04-27T00:22:35Z")

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Hi Observable forum,

I’m receiving a “Sorry, we couldn’t find that page” when I click on a notebook that I just unpublished. I’m not sure what is going on, as I’m certain I didn’t delete the notebook (it isn’t in the trash folder, for instance). I have tried both Firefox and Chrome in case it was a browser issue but it I receive this error in both cases.

I apologize I’m new to using Observable notebooks. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Update: I’ve managed to reproduce this error in another notebook. Also, it appears this error only happens if you do “Publish”, “Set URL” (and “Confirm Changes”), and then “Unpublish”. I don’t get this error if I only “Publish” and then “Unpublish”.

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**Author:** ![shancarter](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.observablehq.com/shancarter/32/3471_2.png) [@shancarter](https://talk.observablehq.com/u/shancarter)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2021, 12:36am UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/unpublished-bug/4983/2 "2021-04-27T00:36:53Z")

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Thanks for the report, looking into it…

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**Author:** ![liukui17](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/71c47a/32.png) [@liukui17](https://talk.observablehq.com/u/liukui17)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2021, 12:41am UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/unpublished-bug/4983/3 "2021-04-27T00:41:10Z")

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Thanks! Another interesting thing I found is that I could download the source code for the notebook just fine (by going to “Notebooks”, then clicking on the “…” next to the notebook, and selecting “Download code”). I inspected the .js and it has all of my stuff in it.

Update: I managed to recover it by forking the old notebook, and deleting the old notebook.

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**Author:** ![shancarter](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.observablehq.com/shancarter/32/3471_2.png) [@shancarter](https://talk.observablehq.com/u/shancarter)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2021, 4:57pm UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/unpublished-bug/4983/4 "2021-04-27T16:57:33Z")

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I’m so glad you were able to recover your old notebook! Our engineers are tracking down the issue and I’ll let you know for future work when we have an update.

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**Author:** ![shancarter](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.observablehq.com/shancarter/32/3471_2.png) [@shancarter](https://talk.observablehq.com/u/shancarter)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2021, 8:02pm UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/unpublished-bug/4983/5 "2021-04-28T20:02:16Z")

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We just pushed a fix for this bug, so hopefully it won’t affect you going forward. You also should now have access to your previously unreachable notebook.

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**Author:** ![liukui17](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/71c47a/32.png) [@liukui17](https://talk.observablehq.com/u/liukui17)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2021, 8:36pm UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/unpublished-bug/4983/6 "2021-04-28T20:36:37Z")

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Awesome, thanks a lot for your help!