Two kinds of card, only one keeps your edits
Cards on the Profiles page come in two kinds. A remote subscription follows its link: every update rewrites the whole file, so anything you edited is gone. A local profile is a YAML file you created, and it stays as you left it. The complaint that edits keep vanishing is almost always an edit on a remote subscription.
To add your own rules on top of a subscription, do not edit the subscription file. Override it from the extension layer, so the subscription keeps updating while your additions live in a separate file. That is the idea; the syntax is a topic of its own.
A profile is a sensitive file
It contains your subscription link, server addresses and passwords in full. Strip those sections before you paste it anywhere.
The right click menu is the real interface here
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Edit info: name, interval, User Agent
Right click a card; the first entry edits its details. The name is yours to change and affects nothing else. The update interval and the User Agent sit in the same dialog and apply on the next update.
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Edit file, or open the folder
The same menu opens the YAML itself, and the open directory entry jumps the file manager to the file on disk, which is how you back it up or open it elsewhere. Edits to a remote subscription here still get overwritten on the next update.
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Create a local profile
Two situations call for one. You run your own server with a few fixed nodes and writing them out beats maintaining a subscription. Or you want to test rules on something clean without touching the subscription you depend on.
A switch that does not happen is a YAML error
Switching profiles runs a validation pass first. A file with broken syntax will not load, and the interface points at roughly where it went wrong. If you saved an edit and nothing changed, open the Logs page and look for a fresh yaml parse error, then check the indentation and the space after the colon on the line it names. Clicking switch again will not help.
- The profile named on the home page is the new one
- The groups and nodes on the Proxies page changed with it
- No fresh parse errors at the bottom of the Logs page
Common questions
I switched profiles but the routing rules behave exactly as before.
Confirm the switch actually happened; a failed validation leaves you on the previous profile. If it did switch, open the Rules page and compare the count and the entries. Two profiles that pull the same rule providers should look nearly identical.
I deleted a profile by mistake. Can I get it back?
There is no recycle bin inside the client; delete removes the file from disk. A remote subscription does not matter, import the link again. A local profile depends on your system recycle bin or your own backup, which is a good reason to copy any local profile you spent time on.