# \[IGN-4307\]Project Security - Cant launch perspective project from Gateway or open in the designer

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ign-4307-project-security-cant-launch-perspective-project-from-gateway-or-open-in-the-designer/58964>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** security, ignition80, perspective\
**Created:** [April 28, 2022, 12:14am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ign-4307-project-security-cant-launch-perspective-project-from-gateway-or-open-in-the-designer/58964 "2022-04-28T00:14:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![jacob.mann](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/jacob.mann/32/35821_2.png) [@jacob.mann](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jacob.mann)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2022, 12:14am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ign-4307-project-security-cant-launch-perspective-project-from-gateway-or-open-in-the-designer/58964/1 "2022-04-28T00:14:14Z")

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Hi all, I am having difficulty accessing a project on my gateway, here is the background…

I have received a gateway backup from a client and restored it on a clean VM with Windows 10.

The gateway has two projects, for two areas of the clients plant. I can see both projects in the Config \> Projects menu and both have the exact same settings and connections defined.

However, in the Home \> perspective session launcher I can only see one project, and when I load the designer and try to open the project I get the message “You don’t have permission to open this project.”

So it seems though there is some additional security settings defined somewhere outside the Gateway users / roles. **Is it possible the project has security settings defined inside the designer that can only be accessed from the designer? i.e the security settings are not visible from the gateway?** is there anyway to circumvent or reset this and gain access the project?

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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:** [April 28, 2022, 5:52pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ign-4307-project-security-cant-launch-perspective-project-from-gateway-or-open-in-the-designer/58964/2 "2022-04-28T17:52:23Z")

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Yes, this is a known issue. Unfortunately, there’s no great workarounds. What you can do is manually remove the ‘global-props’ folder (in the `ignition` directory in the project) and wait 5 minutes/restart the gateway. You will lose any of the ‘global’ properties of the project (tag provider, authentication provider, etc), but will be able to log in.