# Refresh locking up HMI

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/refresh-locking-up-hmi/95948>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Tags:** perspective\
**Created:** [September 13, 2024, 12:45pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/refresh-locking-up-hmi/95948 "2024-09-13T12:45:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 9\
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**Author:** ![Rob\_Howard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b3f665/32.png) [@Rob\_Howard](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Rob_Howard)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2024, 12:45pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/refresh-locking-up-hmi/95948/1 "2024-09-13T12:45:13Z")

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I'm having an issue where every five minutes Ignition is refreshing. It locks out all of my HMIs until it can reboot. Does anyone know a way to keep it from refreshing so often?

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**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2024, 12:48pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/refresh-locking-up-hmi/95948/2 "2024-09-13T12:48:14Z")

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Sounds like something is writing into the Ignition install folder. That gets scanned for changes every five minutes. Find out what is doing that (AV, usually).

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**Author:** ![calimero100582](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/calimero100582/32/18630_2.png) [@calimero100582](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/calimero100582)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2024, 1:29am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/refresh-locking-up-hmi/95948/3 "2024-09-15T01:29:48Z")

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Wondering if a mismatch of resource.json, and an inability for Ignition to overwrite it, would cause the same issue

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**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2024, 10:52am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/refresh-locking-up-hmi/95948/4 "2024-09-15T10:52:27Z")

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> [@calimero100582](#):
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> inability for Ignition to overwrite it,

This would absolutely be a problem. Must be writable.

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**Author:** ![Rob\_Howard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b3f665/32.png) [@Rob\_Howard](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Rob_Howard)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2024, 11:56am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/refresh-locking-up-hmi/95948/5 "2024-09-16T11:56:16Z")

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How do I find if this is the issue and how would I correct it?

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**Author:** ![calimero100582](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/calimero100582/32/18630_2.png) [@calimero100582](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/calimero100582)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2024, 1:45pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/refresh-locking-up-hmi/95948/6 "2024-09-16T13:45:55Z")

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I think, just to validate, I would rename one of the resource.json file. It should be recreated after 5 min

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**Author:** ![Rob\_Howard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b3f665/32.png) [@Rob\_Howard](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Rob_Howard)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2024, 2:08pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/refresh-locking-up-hmi/95948/7 "2024-09-16T14:08:45Z")

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Not only did it not recreate the resource file, but the page became not accessible.

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**Author:** ![calimero100582](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/calimero100582/32/18630_2.png) [@calimero100582](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/calimero100582)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2024, 2:39pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/refresh-locking-up-hmi/95948/8 "2024-09-16T14:39:12Z")

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You are on Windows?

The user running Ignition service need to have full access to "data/projects" folder.

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**Author:** ![Rob\_Howard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b3f665/32.png) [@Rob\_Howard](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Rob_Howard)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2024, 2:50pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/refresh-locking-up-hmi/95948/9 "2024-09-16T14:50:46Z")

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This is a Linux server. Sorry, I forgot to mention that.