# Project failing to load

**URL:** <https://forum.openrefine.org/t/project-failing-to-load/2227>\
**Category:** Support and Helpdesk\
**Created:** [April 9, 2025, 6:56pm UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/project-failing-to-load/2227 "2025-04-09T18:56:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![colognella](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecb155/32.png) [@colognella](https://forum.openrefine.org/u/colognella)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2025, 6:56pm UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/project-failing-to-load/2227/1 "2025-04-09T18:56:20Z")

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Hello,  
this might be related to [this topic](https://forum.openrefine.org/u/activate-account/9f426b94ead69b774944b9cbdd34ba0a), but I'm not sure. I added 1 single blank row and shortly after the project crashed (with a Java related error message, sorry no screenshot) and cannot be opened again, the endless spinning wheel. The project is medium-sized, less than 4000 entries, only partly reconciled with Wikidata.

- Mac, Monterey
- Opera (instead of Chrome, worked fine for quite a while now)
- OR 3.9.2
- no sign of corruption in the project folder

Interestingly, I can open the project in a Windows environment. I tried to export and re-import to Mac, but no avail.

Is there a recipe to recover the project, like what @antonin_d did in the other thread?

Thanks for any help

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**Author:** ![Rory](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.openrefine.org/rory/32/1517_2.png) [@Rory](https://forum.openrefine.org/u/Rory)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2025, 7:25pm UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/project-failing-to-load/2227/2 "2025-04-09T19:25:22Z")

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Hi @colognella, welcome to the forum! I think your link goes to a different page than you meant; are you talking about the bug discussed in [this thread](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/after-adding-rows-and-editing-a-cell-project-failing-to-load/2214)?  
If so, I'm not sure how @antonin_d recovered that project, but the fix for this issue should be released tomorrow as part of [Releasing 3.9.3](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/releasing-3-9-3/2219)

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**Author:** ![colognella](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecb155/32.png) [@colognella](https://forum.openrefine.org/u/colognella)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2025, 7:43pm UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/project-failing-to-load/2227/3 "2025-04-09T19:43:47Z")

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yeah, thanks, this is the correct link. Tomorrow sounds nice, I'll arm myself with patience 😉

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**Author:** ![colognella](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecb155/32.png) [@colognella](https://forum.openrefine.org/u/colognella)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2025, 3:08pm UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/project-failing-to-load/2227/4 "2025-04-18T15:08:02Z")

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Hello, after installing 3.9.3 I'm able to open my seemingly corrupted project. Thanks for all your effort!

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**Author:** ![Rory](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.openrefine.org/rory/32/1517_2.png) [@Rory](https://forum.openrefine.org/u/Rory)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2025, 3:38pm UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/project-failing-to-load/2227/5 "2025-04-18T15:38:36Z")

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That's great! And thank you for your patience while I worked through the release 😅