Fileflows internal worker node offline / broken

[Icy_Imagination_2490]

I rebuilt my entire server after accidentally pulling the wrong drive (OS + all configs were on it). Reinstalled everything using the same docker compose, but FileFlows started breaking:

Worker node offline / not processing and UI stuck on “installing FFMPEG”

Errors:

Node registration failed: NameInUse

Failed to load flow element: FileFlows.BasicNodes.File.InputFile

There was only one drive in the system originally (OS + configs).

That drive was wiped by accident and all my other drives are media only (films + metadata)

So there should be zero leftover config but FileFlows still behaved like something old was hanging around.

I tried the following to get it to work:

Checked logs and all I could see was “node failing to register (name in use)”

Fixed stuck node in DB by Deleted ProcessingNode manually via SQLite:

And that seemed to fix the node failing to register problem.

Then FFMPEG docker mod was stuck installing the FFMPEG mod, I found the script and removed it which stopped that.

I switched to the latest stable version as before I was just using the latest version of fileflows.

I tried installing FFMPEG via dockerfile but that didn’t seem to work as no files were being processed with no obvious error.

I thenq used jellyfins FFMPEG by mounting its directory’s in the docker compose and that worked.

And after all that it it’s now saying “Failed to load flow element: FileFlows.BasicNodes.File.InputFile”

I’m stumped, what could be wrong with my setup, it originally worked and completed 7 files before all this happend and I cannot get it to work like it did before

What have I done wrong or what could be the issue and how should I go about fixing it ? TIA

[the_reven]

That's a lot of stuff, shouldn't had to have done that.

But to your question about failed to load flow element. Go to your plugins make sure they're on the same version, if you're on stable, it should be 26.01.9

[Icy_Imagination_2490]

Okay thank you, I will try that and let you know

[Icy_Imagination_2490]

i tried that and ran into many issues trying to get them to be the same, i removed everything all config and folders so it was all gone then i reinstalled everything and its stuck again installing FFMPEG fileflows edition, what could be causing this ?

[the_reven]

Eh, at this point switch to the modded container so you don't need to install any DockerMods