# Local Stopped working. All Local Sites are gone, and can't create new ones **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Created:** [May 29, 2024, 9:42am UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/local-stopped-working-all-local-sites-are-gone-and-cant-create-new-ones/43099 "2024-05-29T09:42:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Unhallowed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b2d939/32.png) [@Unhallowed](https://community.localwp.com/u/Unhallowed)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2024, 9:42am UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/local-stopped-working-all-local-sites-are-gone-and-cant-create-new-ones/43099/1 "2024-05-29T09:42:18Z")
Hello, I’m in need of help. I was starting my work week, and suddenly all my Local Sites were gone. I tried to troubleshoot it, and was happy to find that they were still here, all of them on the folder, just not showing up on Local. - Saw that I could create a new website and import the .zip folder. Tried that, didn’t work. - Tried creating a new site, and then I would just put the files there, shouldn’t be a big issue. Upon clicking “add site” it just didn’t do anything. - Ok, saw that it could be related to the .json file, that It could be empty. I went to check for it and.. everything was there, seemed fine no issues. So, I backed up everything, uninstalled local, rebooted my pc. Installed local again. - Still not being able to add site. - Ok did everything again but now installed previous version. Still not working. - Uninstall - reboot - install in a different disk… Still not working. I’m running out of ideas and getting more and more frustrated, panic starting to settle. I just want to work ### System Details Intel(R) Core™ i5-10600KF CPU @ 4.10GHz 4.10 GHz 32GB RAM - **Local Version:** 9.0.2 9.0.3 - **Operating System (OS) and OS version:** Windows 10 Pro * * * ### Local Logs Today logs: [local-logs1.zip](https://community.localwp.com/uploads/short-url/eSLsFCGYnKZMRa9jMt4AoAcJFEX.zip) (1.1 MB) Logs before doing anything: [local-logs.zip](https://community.localwp.com/uploads/short-url/bkhdUhSs5oRmzoI5m4l9EILaebN.zip) (1.1 MB) ---
**Author:** ![nickc](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.localwp.com/nickc/32/21209_2.png) [@nickc](https://community.localwp.com/u/nickc)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2024, 10:20am UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/local-stopped-working-all-local-sites-are-gone-and-cant-create-new-ones/43099/2 "2024-05-29T10:20:59Z")
Sorry that you encountered this, @Unhallowed. You say you’ve already tried re-importing sites. Could you try following these steps, please? 1. In Windows File Explorer, locate your Local sites here: PC → [your hard drive] → Users → [your username] → Local Sites. 2. Right click each of your sites folders, and choose “Compress to ZIP file” to make a zip file from each site folder. 3. Drag each zip file into Local to import it (you may have to give it a new name). If that doesn’t work, it would be helpful to have exact error messages Local displays when the import fails, as well as a copy of your Local logs immediately following the import attempt. ---
**Author:** ![Unhallowed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b2d939/32.png) [@Unhallowed](https://community.localwp.com/u/Unhallowed)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2024, 11:24am UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/local-stopped-working-all-local-sites-are-gone-and-cant-create-new-ones/43099/3 "2024-05-29T11:24:52Z")
Hello. First one says: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/lwpforums/original/3X/2/6/262b6afe0a05e3a6e4f7e7eb46964d9b5629e8c6.png) If I try again with a different name, says : ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/lwpforums/original/3X/e/5/e5c483b15e152f4d66f72be247d084c958a96589.png) Forgot about logs, here they are: [local-logs3.zip](https://community.localwp.com/uploads/short-url/dA4anM8o7naNMhLYw1PWTB1CGmq.zip) (1.1 MB) ---
**Author:** ![nickc](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.localwp.com/nickc/32/21209_2.png) [@nickc](https://community.localwp.com/u/nickc)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2024, 12:36pm UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/local-stopped-working-all-local-sites-are-gone-and-cant-create-new-ones/43099/4 "2024-05-29T12:36:55Z")
Thanks for sharing your logs, @Unhallowed. Please could you try this? 1. Quit Local if it’s running. 2. Open the Windows File Explorer. 3. Make sure you have enabled “[show hidden items](https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/view-hidden-files-and-folders-in-windows-97fbc472-c603-9d90-91d0-1166d1d9f4b5#WindowsVersion=Windows_10)”. 4. Browse to This PC → [your hard drive] → Users → [your username] → AppData → Roaming → Local. 5. Rename the `sites-organization.json` file to `sites-organization-old.json`. 6. Start Local. Import the sites manually from their location on disk by zipping them and dragging them into Local as before (you will still need to give them a different name). ---
**Author:** ![Unhallowed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b2d939/32.png) [@Unhallowed](https://community.localwp.com/u/Unhallowed)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2024, 1:28pm UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/local-stopped-working-all-local-sites-are-gone-and-cant-create-new-ones/43099/5 "2024-05-29T13:28:33Z")
Hello Nickc! Okay. They are all back. most of them were giving me issues ( because i changed folder name, removed some, etc ). But they are back. Thank you so much Nickc! ---
**Author:** ![Unhallowed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b2d939/32.png) [@Unhallowed](https://community.localwp.com/u/Unhallowed)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2024, 1:32pm UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/local-stopped-working-all-local-sites-are-gone-and-cant-create-new-ones/43099/6 "2024-05-29T13:32:33Z")
Man I’m really thankful. I was already passing everything to my laptop, what a relief, you can’t imagine, I had over 30 websites here. You answered pretty fast, and really straight forward as an easy guide. Is there anything I can do? ---
**Author:** ![nickc](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.localwp.com/nickc/32/21209_2.png) [@nickc](https://community.localwp.com/u/nickc)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2024, 1:49pm UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/local-stopped-working-all-local-sites-are-gone-and-cant-create-new-ones/43099/7 "2024-05-29T13:49:41Z")
Great to hear, @Unhallowed! I’m sorry again that you experienced this. Thank you for reporting the issue and for using Local.