Reinstalling the Lightning app without FORCE CLOSING channels :)

Good day legend,

I tried to open a watch tower, unfortunately I set the fee to 2 sats/vb this actually reckt my all node and I could not restart it.

I ssh to the config but you regenerate the config which by the way I get it for people that doesn’t know what they doing but in that case I would really love to be able to swap fee for example so I wouldn’t have to do what I did next.

As my node was not running anymore I add to delete the Lightning node app. This was a mistake… x.com

So when they asked if I had channel open I said YES

Then I saw the recovery file or my back up so I press recover and everything got force close… Really not what I wanted.
So my question is could I just press BACK instead of pressing the back up file? Like see on this pic:

Would this could have saved my channels? Or not when you are uninstalling the app you have to force close everything?

Thank you

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