# 'Designer Needs to be Manually Restarted' After short Timeout

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/designer-needs-to-be-manually-restarted-after-short-timeout/57560>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition81\
**Created:** [March 23, 2022, 8:03pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/designer-needs-to-be-manually-restarted-after-short-timeout/57560 "2022-03-23T20:03:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bryan\_Mason](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/bryan_mason/32/30612_2.png) [@Bryan\_Mason](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Bryan_Mason)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2022, 2:58pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/designer-needs-to-be-manually-restarted-after-short-timeout/57560/2 "2022-05-20T14:58:54Z")

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Here's an answer to the same question:

> [@\[IGN-407\]Brief Network/VPN Outages causing designer projects to become invalidated?](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ign-407-brief-network-vpn-outages-causing-designer-projects-to-become-invalidated/59428/2):
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> This is basically a bug (I’ve added this thread to our internal tracker). As a bandaid, apparently setting sessiontimeout.designer to something higher than the default 60 (via ignition.conf parameter in the wrapper.java.additional area) might help.

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