# Projects only partially loading **URL:** \ **Category:** Questions\ **Created:** [May 2, 2025, 1:09am UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/projects-only-partially-loading/80411 "2025-05-02T01:09:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![RanarhEadha](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/ranarheadha/32/38801_2.png) [@RanarhEadha](https://forum.defold.com/u/RanarhEadha)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2025, 1:09am UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/projects-only-partially-loading/80411/1 "2025-05-02T01:09:13Z")
On one computer, after one update some time ago, projects stopped loading correctly (sorry for being so unspecific). After a few re-installs following various tips about it from the community, a new project that was copied from another machine would only load partially - some scripts were loaded, others not. If it’s of interest, it seemed the older scripts loaded but not the newer content - the project had been started about a year ago. Windows 11 Defold not in Programs folder Logs show no errors ---
**Author:** ![Asatte](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/asatte/32/39093_2.png) [@Asatte](https://forum.defold.com/u/Asatte)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2025, 4:02am UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/projects-only-partially-loading/80411/2 "2025-05-02T04:02:10Z")
Did not experience it with Defold but one of the latest Windows Update has also caused some problems with another engine. Solved it by rolling back to the previous version and undoing the update. Lately the updates have become less stable ---
**Author:** ![selimanac](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/selimanac/32/6397_2.png) [@selimanac](https://forum.defold.com/u/selimanac)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2025, 6:49am UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/projects-only-partially-loading/80411/3 "2025-05-02T06:49:16Z")
> [@RanarhEadha](#): > > only load partially What do you mean by “only load partially,” and where exactly? If you mean the Editor, it just shows all files from the project folder in the Assets panel, as far as I know, there’s nothing special going on there. Can you see those files listed on Assets panel? What happens when you build the project? Does it work? > [@RanarhEadha](#): > > it seemed the older scripts loaded but not the newer content Again, what does “loading” refer to here? I can only make a lucky guess, but if you’re using Git, you could try deleting the .git folder from the project root. > [@RanarhEadha](#): > > Defold not in Programs folder I’m not a Windows user, but this might cause a permission issue. ---
**Author:** ![britzl](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/britzl/32/23_2.png) [@britzl](https://forum.defold.com/u/britzl)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2025, 11:45am UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/projects-only-partially-loading/80411/4 "2025-05-02T11:45:42Z")
> [@RanarhEadha](#): > > some scripts were loaded, others not. So specifically .script files? Or also .lua files etc? Any weird filenames? Any weird characters in the scripts? Are the files [ignored](https://defold.com/manuals/project-defignore/#the-defignore-file)? ---
**Author:** ![RanarhEadha](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/ranarheadha/32/38801_2.png) [@RanarhEadha](https://forum.defold.com/u/RanarhEadha)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2025, 3:37pm UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/projects-only-partially-loading/80411/5 "2025-05-02T15:37:45Z")
“Loaded”, sorry, I meant the things that showed up int he Assets panel. Those were older parts of the project but not the newer ones - if that even is the difference. Only scripts showed, not .lua files. Only one folder fromt he project had loaded. No, we are German but have long learned to not use an special characters in any file names, we are good with naming. We are not ignoring any files. The engine also does not finish starting up for any older projects. ---
**Author:** ![selimanac](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/selimanac/32/6397_2.png) [@selimanac](https://forum.defold.com/u/selimanac)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2025, 5:30pm UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/projects-only-partially-loading/80411/6 "2025-05-02T17:30:02Z")
> [@RanarhEadha](#): > > The engine also does not finish starting up for any older projects. Yet another guess: maybe try deleting the `build` and `.internal` folders from the project root, then build again. It should at least give an error about missing files (if there are any). Actually If you can share the project here, we can take a closer look. ---
**Author:** ![RanarhEadha](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/ranarheadha/32/38801_2.png) [@RanarhEadha](https://forum.defold.com/u/RanarhEadha)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2025, 5:56pm UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/projects-only-partially-loading/80411/7 "2025-05-02T17:56:40Z")
Deleting those helps me load old projects. I got the project I initially wrote about to work now. It’s difficult to describe, but it seems Defold tried to load from a wrong folder (unless I got confused myself of course). When I opened Defold and chose Open from Disk it loaded all parts of the project.