LocalWP has recently started freezing up on me. I reinstalled LocalWP and then lost the connection to all my sites. I’ve zipped them and was just about to start loading them back into the new LocalWP. However on stopping a site I was working on, Local froze. I started task manager to end it and restarted the laptop. I tried to restart Local at this point and it just wont start. I’ve tried to run as administrator and again it wont do anything.
Do I need to reinstall it again? What is causing this to happen and what is the fix?
Do you have plenty of storage space on your device?
Are you noticing any specific performance issues with Local or on your device in general? You mentioned that the site from your other post was quite large. Do you work with a lot of larger sites in general that could be taking up lots of space or contributing to performance problems?
Some other Windows (if that’s your OS) and performance checks can be found on our docs below:
I’m on Windows 10. I have at least 20GB free space. Most of the sites are single page site so shouldn’t be that large in file size. Its only be in the last couple of days that Local has started playing up and getting stuck on stopping a site. First time I shut down the laptop which stopped Local from running again. I reinstalled it and it started fine, although all sites were no longer listing. It got stuck again on stopping a site. I ended the task in task manager, but it wouldn’t start again. I’ve now tried to reinstall Local and tried starting it but it wont start now, even though I’ve tried reinstalling it a couple of times now.
Sorry @paulaspinall I misunderstood. It’s possible something became corrupted here. You can try running Local right from shell. This comment will get you started. Something may have been corrupted in which the comment in the second link will help you refresh and fix this manually.
If that’s the case then as noted in that thread you can find some steps here to fix this manually:
I’ve tried the first suggestion. I ran the command in the powershell, changing username to me and it didnt work. I get an objectnotfound and a commandnotfound exception. I had a look in the folder and Local is empty.
I found Local.exe under c:\Program_Files(86)\Local. I tried running it from here and it wouldnt work. I decided to use command prompt instead and tried running it not from app data but from its actual location and I got the %%UserDataPath%% error.
I renamed the 2 files to “old”. I tried to start Local normally from the desktop icon and watched the file directory. A new sites.json was created but the other file wasnt. Instead window-state.json was updated. I tried to run it in cmd. it didnt open and the last entry was:
I decided to uninstall it. Interestingly the uninstaller said it was running, even though there was nothing showing.
So far the new install appears to be working, although the one click login isn’t for at least 1 site. Ive clicked the one click login and when I open WPAdmin, it still asks me for a password. When I enter it, it tells me it’s wrong and there is no way to reset it as the forgotten password link doesnt recognise email addresses and when I put the username, it says it sends an email but nothing has been sent to my account email.
I’m glad the new install is working for now @paulaspinall
As far as your password resets, those won’t come to your actual email. Since Local is a “local” application those get captured in Local’s mail feature, Mailpit. You can access it from the tools tab. More on that here: Mailpit - Local