# Alert Default profile Problem

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alert-default-profile-problem/7642>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [November 29, 2013, 2:36pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alert-default-profile-problem/7642 "2013-11-29T14:36:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![apimente](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/apimente/32/4030_2.png) [@apimente](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/apimente)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2013, 2:36pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alert-default-profile-problem/7642/1 "2013-11-29T14:36:31Z")

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Hi,

In our current project, we’ve configured a database profile for the equipment alerts. Sadly, when we started to test this project, we didn’t have the database profile and we used or was simply configured the standard or default alert management.

The problem is that today we have alerts from the past that aren’t in the current database but are showed in our alert window. We tried looking in the advance console but haven’t found anything.

does anybody have some kind of tip about it?

Thanks in advance.

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**Author:** ![Robert.McKenzie](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/robert.mckenzie/32/4134_2.png) [@Robert.McKenzie](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Robert.McKenzie)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2013, 9:47pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alert-default-profile-problem/7642/2 "2013-12-27T21:47:45Z")

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In 7.5 there is a .alerts file that helps alarms persist across gateway restarts. You can delete that file when you restart the Ignition gateway and the list of current alarms will be recreated. Check out [this post](http://www.inductiveautomation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=72&t=10981) for more info.