# Vision Client Launcher Application Shortcuts Becoming Invalid

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/vision-client-launcher-application-shortcuts-becoming-invalid/37821>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition80\
**Created:** [August 17, 2020, 7:04pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/vision-client-launcher-application-shortcuts-becoming-invalid/37821 "2020-08-17T19:04:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![rstevenson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d6d6ee/32.png) [@rstevenson](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/rstevenson)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2020, 7:04pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/vision-client-launcher-application-shortcuts-becoming-invalid/37821/1 "2020-08-17T19:04:26Z")

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Has anyone else run into an issue with creating an application shortcut using the Vision Client Launcher, and the shortcut becoming invalid after a day or two? If so how do you correct this?

I have had multiple users create shortcuts of Ignition projects onto their personal desktops, but then after a day or two the shortcut throws a launch error that reads,“Specified Vision Application no longer exists.” In order to use the application again, they need to re-add the project in the Vision Client Launcher, and re-create the shortcut correspondingly. However the problem occurs again a day or two later.

Any information helps, thank you!

I am on Ignition 8.0.2.

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**Author:** ![witman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d2c977/32.png) [@witman](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/witman)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2020, 7:18pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/vision-client-launcher-application-shortcuts-becoming-invalid/37821/2 "2020-08-17T19:18:50Z")

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I haven’t experienced this (now on 8.0.15, can’t remember if we ever used 8.0.2). Various issues have been fixed in Ignition 8.0.x client launchers. It may be worth an upgrade.

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**Author:** ![rstevenson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d6d6ee/32.png) [@rstevenson](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/rstevenson)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2021, 1:41pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/vision-client-launcher-application-shortcuts-becoming-invalid/37821/3 "2021-01-11T13:41:18Z")

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After a lot of troubleshooting I have solved this issue. Our IT department had set up a public folder that housed all of the Vision Client files and that included a default .json files with a pre-loaded set of projects, all of them were older and outdated. I replaced this .json file with an updated version including all of the relevant projects that I wanted to be easily accessible.

I was unaware of this folder and thus every time someone restarted their computer, the Vision Client Launcher pulled that .json file from the shared folder wiping any manually loaded projects.