# \[BUG\] Page config "pages" dictionary emptied. Page Configuration lost

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bug-page-config-pages-dictionary-emptied-page-configuration-lost/61130>\
**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")\
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**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")

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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\<project_name>\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.

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