# Local not opening at all

**URL:** <https://community.localwp.com/t/local-not-opening-at-all/9390>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [November 10, 2018, 10:51pm UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/local-not-opening-at-all/9390 "2018-11-10T22:51:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![bpinnington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c89c15/32.png) [@bpinnington](https://community.localwp.com/u/bpinnington)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2018, 10:51pm UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/local-not-opening-at-all/9390/1 "2018-11-10T22:51:37Z")

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Hi all,

I have three sites I’m currently developing and I hope I don’t lose them.

Local was working fine last week, it’s been asking me to update for a while now but I put it off, then all of a sudden I started getting stuck in the ‘starting local machine’ loop - so I decided to update Local.

Now it won’t start at all - clicking the shortcut, exe. etc. doesn’t do a thing.

I’ve tried updating VM Virtualbox to the latest version.  
I’ve tried removing the virtual NIC in Virtualbox.  
I’ve tried stopping the VM instance in Virtualbox, closing Virtualbox and restarting Local.

I haven’t yet tried uninstalling and reinstalling local. If I do this, what happens to my sites?

Cheers,

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**Author:** ![flycrum](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.localwp.com/flycrum/32/5862_2.png) [@flycrum](https://community.localwp.com/u/flycrum)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2018, 6:01pm UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/local-not-opening-at-all/9390/2 "2018-11-12T18:01:17Z")

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Hey @bpinnington,

Man, we certainly don’t like to see issues with Local not starting. It sounds like you might be running into an issue we learned about and fixed in 2.4.6 where a lingering process prevents Local from starting. That’s definitely our bad! 😬 Now this is going to sound silly to ask, but would try restarting Windows? If it is a process hanging around, this will hopefully get you far enough to start Local again and upgrade to the latest version so this troll of a bug doesn’t hurt you (or anyone else) ever again 😅

Please let it know how it goes.

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**Author:** ![bpinnington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c89c15/32.png) [@bpinnington](https://community.localwp.com/u/bpinnington)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2018, 9:08pm UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/local-not-opening-at-all/9390/3 "2018-11-12T21:08:56Z")

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Hey @flycrum,

No go unfortunately.

Is it possible to download the update separately and install?

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**Author:** ![system](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.localwp.com/system/32/1_2.png) [@system](https://community.localwp.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2020, 6:35pm UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/local-not-opening-at-all/9390/4 "2020-08-25T18:35:45Z")

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