# \[BUG\] Page config "pages" dictionary emptied. Page Configuration lost **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Tags:** ignition81, perspective\ **Created:** [June 23, 2022, 7:03pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bug-page-config-pages-dictionary-emptied-page-configuration-lost/61130 "2022-06-23T19:03:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![richardNZ15](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/richardnz15/32/33373_2.png) [@richardNZ15](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/richardNZ15)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2025, 12:16am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bug-page-config-pages-dictionary-emptied-page-configuration-lost/61130/21 "2025-04-09T00:16:56Z")
Also happened to one of our customers twice in a few days, on v8.1.45.. Happened when updating changes in designer. Not sure exactly what was modified. ---
**Author:** ![tyler.bennett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f04885/32.png) [@tyler.bennett](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/tyler.bennett)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2025, 2:47pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bug-page-config-pages-dictionary-emptied-page-configuration-lost/61130/22 "2025-05-14T14:47:04Z")
Just happened to me on v8.1.48. I closed designer in the late evening when people opened perspective in the morning it showed "View not found" error. I quickly determined that all page configuration was cleared. I reviewed the audit log and was surprised to find the change was attributed to me as it would seem difficult to mistakenly delete each any every configured page. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/d/e/de2b5dde2bce149da9fb9a626f657e5507c7e757.png) I was able to manually restore the page configuration by extracting the gateway backup from the previous day (using 7zip) and examining the configuration contained in `\projects\\com.inductiveautomation.perspective\page-config\config.json`. I suppose there might be way to restore that file directly instead of the manual method used but I stuck with what I knew in the moment. ---
**Author:** ![Anantharaman\_Nagaraj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Anantharaman\_Nagaraj](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Anantharaman_Nagaraj)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 7:05pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bug-page-config-pages-dictionary-emptied-page-configuration-lost/61130/23 "2025-06-10T19:05:08Z")
Hi @tyler.bennett we had faced / facing this issue often in our projects, my simple way of avoiding this by when you did not found the views. Simply close the project and reopen again 99% it worked for us. Hope this may be helpful. And i believe in 8.3 IA will come up with solution for this issue. ---
**Author:** ![tyler.bennett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f04885/32.png) [@tyler.bennett](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/tyler.bennett)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2025, 2:54pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bug-page-config-pages-dictionary-emptied-page-configuration-lost/61130/24 "2025-06-18T14:54:03Z")
> [@Anantharaman\_Nagaraj](#): > > my simple way of avoiding this by when you did not found the views. Simply close the project and reopen again 99% it worked for us. @Anantharaman_Nagaraj I suspect we might be describing different problems. I have had rare occasion where my perspective views appeared to be missing in designer and a restart of designer (or restart of gateway, can't recall which) seemed to resolve that. In this case it is the page configuration (URLS) that is missing (entirely) and I believe (can't recall for certain) that I looked at the underlying file system and confirmed the file was missing the expected configuration. I don't expect a designer/gateway restart will fix that. ---
**Author:** ![Anantharaman\_Nagaraj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Anantharaman\_Nagaraj](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Anantharaman_Nagaraj)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2025, 4:17pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bug-page-config-pages-dictionary-emptied-page-configuration-lost/61130/25 "2025-06-19T16:17:34Z")
oh ok @tyler.bennett thanks [Previous page](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bug-page-config-pages-dictionary-emptied-page-configuration-lost/61130.md?page=1)