# Crash when opening projects after updating

**URL:** <https://forum.defold.com/t/crash-when-opening-projects-after-updating/82226>\
**Category:** Bugs\
**Created:** [January 13, 2026, 2:47pm UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/crash-when-opening-projects-after-updating/82226 "2026-01-13T14:47:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![scandalousowl](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/90db22/32.png) [@scandalousowl](https://forum.defold.com/u/scandalousowl)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2026, 2:47pm UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/crash-when-opening-projects-after-updating/82226/1 "2026-01-13T14:47:08Z")

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**Describe the bug (REQUIRED)**  
Was working fine yesterday. I updated Defold today and now it immediately crashes upon opening new or any existing projects.

**To Reproduce (REQUIRED)**

1. Open Defold
2. Select ‘My Project’ → Open Selected
  1. Also tried creating new project from empty template, downloading tutorial and ‘open from disk’.

3. Defold immediately crashes

**Expected behaviour (REQUIRED)**

Defold to open the project and not crash.

**Defold version (REQUIRED):**

- Version 1.12.0

**Platforms (REQUIRED):**

- Platforms: Windows 10

**Logs (OPTIONAL):**

[editor2.2026-01-13.txt](https://forum.defold.com/uploads/short-url/mwXxqSKAI1levBpNX8g4LSs08RE.txt) (127.9 KB)

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**Author:** ![mats.gisselson](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/mats.gisselson/32/3379_2.png) [@mats.gisselson](https://forum.defold.com/u/mats.gisselson)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2026, 10:58am UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/crash-when-opening-projects-after-updating/82226/2 "2026-01-14T10:58:16Z")

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From the log, it appears as if something has corrupted your editor installation somehow. Can you try re-downloading and installing the editor to see if that helps?

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**Author:** ![scandalousowl](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/90db22/32.png) [@scandalousowl](https://forum.defold.com/u/scandalousowl)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2026, 11:21am UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/crash-when-opening-projects-after-updating/82226/3 "2026-01-14T11:21:41Z")

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Thanks! Deleting the existing one and re-downloading a fresh copy works 🙂

Also, I don’t know if this is related but the download from [defold.com](http://defold.com) kept failing? I ended up downloading from github.

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**Author:** ![mats.gisselson](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/mats.gisselson/32/3379_2.png) [@mats.gisselson](https://forum.defold.com/u/mats.gisselson)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2026, 1:59pm UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/crash-when-opening-projects-after-updating/82226/4 "2026-01-14T13:59:02Z")

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Huh. The download links seem fine now at least. Hopefully it was only a temporary glitch. Glad to hear you got it working again, though!