# How to clear dead alarms from Alarm Journal

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-clear-dead-alarms-from-alarm-journal/79306>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** vision\
**Created:** [September 18, 2023, 5:44pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-clear-dead-alarms-from-alarm-journal/79306 "2023-09-18T17:44:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![zacht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ea5d25/32.png) [@zacht](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/zacht)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2023, 2:33pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-clear-dead-alarms-from-alarm-journal/79306/2 "2023-09-19T14:33:27Z")

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Maybe:

> [@Can't Clear Changed Alarm](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/cant-clear-changed-alarm/64250/3):
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> Ack mode is set to manual, but when the footer is enabled, the Acknowledge button is grayed out. I had a conversation with Support. They suggested I stop the gateway, delete %Install Directory%/data/alarms\_######, then restart the gateway. I’ll try that next weekend and see if it helps.

That process worked for me on a similar sounding but slightly different problem.

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