# Org-roam buffer is empty

**URL:** <https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/org-roam-buffer-is-empty/1156>\
**Category:** Troubleshooting\
**Created:** [January 12, 2021, 4:34am UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/org-roam-buffer-is-empty/1156 "2021-01-12T04:34:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![d\_borealis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a4c791/32.png) [@d\_borealis](https://org-roam.discourse.group/u/d_borealis)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2021, 4:34am UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/org-roam-buffer-is-empty/1156/1 "2021-01-12T04:34:38Z")

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Hello,  
I recently installed org-roam in Ubuntu and getting started. I did read the man pages and commands and felt there was something missing in way I understood backlinks.

Here is example I used M-x org-insert to insert warsaw . org  
====contents of curie . org  
#+Title: curie  
Marie Curie was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who  
conducted research.

She was born in file:…/…/org-roam/20210111221050-warsaw.org warsaw which was part of Russian empire.

==== contents of CAPTURE-2021… -warsaw.org  
#+title: warsaw  
Warsaw is the capital of Poland.

====  
Now I go back to curie . org and type in M-x org-roam-buffer-activate the buffer opens up empty.

My understanding was the links “warsaw . org” should show up in the org-roam buffer. Is this correct?

I tried similar examples - but do not see the links in org-roam buffer. Please let me know if I am using right commands.

- within curie . org I navigate to word warsaw and C-c C-o - it opens up 202101…-warsaw.org.
- I tried M-x org-roam-db-build-cache too.

I want to appreciate all the work done to this package.

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**Author:** ![nobiot](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/org-roam.discourse.group/nobiot/32/159_2.png) [@nobiot](https://org-roam.discourse.group/u/nobiot)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2021, 6:56am UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/org-roam-buffer-is-empty/1156/2 "2021-01-12T06:56:10Z")

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> [@d\_borealis](#):
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> contents of CAPTURE-2021… -warsaw.org

This suggests to me that the buffer has not been saved into your filesystem yet. Try `C-c C-c` to commit your capture. Automatic update of the cache DB is done when you save the buffer.

You may like to read through some more material to get started with Org-roam. This [section](https://www.orgroam.com/manual.html#Getting-Started) of the official user manual has a quick walk-through of the system. I have also [started documenting](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/unofficial-user-guide-to-org-roam-idea-outline-only-at-this-stage/797) basic elements of Org-roam to complement the official user manual. [This chapter on the capturing process](https://github.com/nobiot/unofficial-user-manual-org-roam/blob/main/capture.org) might be useful to you.

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**Author:** ![d\_borealis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a4c791/32.png) [@d\_borealis](https://org-roam.discourse.group/u/d_borealis)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2021, 1:36pm UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/org-roam-buffer-is-empty/1156/3 "2021-01-12T13:36:17Z")

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Thank you, the C-c C-c made it work. I will use this as reference and try another example to understand this better.