# Delete a project issue

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/delete-a-project-issue/114198>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [February 26, 2026, 6:01am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/delete-a-project-issue/114198 "2026-02-26T06:01:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ling\_Zhu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Ling\_Zhu](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Ling_Zhu)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2026, 6:01am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/delete-a-project-issue/114198/1 "2026-02-26T06:01:59Z")

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Hi, guys, i imported a project which has permission settings with a special Role which i don’t have in my server. As a result, i can’t open it and cannot delete it from my web config. How can i delete it, i have asked my IT guys and they said they can’t do it from the backend.

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**Author:** ![Bushmatic](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/bushmatic/32/87014_2.png) [@Bushmatic](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Bushmatic)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2026, 6:23am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/delete-a-project-issue/114198/2 "2026-02-26T06:23:37Z")

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The IT guys should be able to do it from the backend by editing the project files directly on the gateway server, or just deleting the folder corresponding to that project. There should be a `…/data/projects/` folder in the install directory. Permission settings should be stored in a file called `ProjectName/project.json`.

To be safe you should stop the gateway service before modifying anything in here, and restart it afterward.

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**Author:** ![tgarrison](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/tgarrison/32/80965_2.png) [@tgarrison](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/tgarrison)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2026, 1:04pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/delete-a-project-issue/114198/3 "2026-02-26T13:04:42Z")

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Do you know the missing role? if so, add it and give yourself that role.

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**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2026, 5:22pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/delete-a-project-issue/114198/4 "2026-02-26T17:22:54Z")

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If you want to be slightly more surgical, you can guide them to only delete a single directory.

It'll be `$ignitionInstallationDirectory/data/projects/EnergyMonitoringSystem/ignition/global-props/`.  
If you delete that _entire folder_ and then restart the gateway, you should be able to access that project in the designer. You'll need to re-set the project's default tag provider, database connection, identity provider, etc, but all the rest of the project will be untouched.

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