topic Help! Disappearing Job Design! in Talend Studio

Help! Disappearing Job Design!

kewbsl — Mon, 10 Dec 2018 20:54:14 GMT

I had a disk issue earlier and when I closed Talend it said there was a problem saving the state of the workbench.

Opening Talend again, the job I was working on is not listed. I had 4 job designs but only 3 are present. I definitely saved the file (successfully!) before the disk error arose, so I can't see why there would be an issue.

Similarly, when I go into

C:\MyProject\MYPROJECT\process

there are 12 files visible each of the 4 job designs has 3 files with extensions

.item

.properties

.screenshot

So they should be there, right? But they're not.

Can anyone suggest what might be going wrong?

Thanks

Re: Help! Disappearing Job Design!

Anonymous — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 05:42:25 GMT

Hi,

If you have not saved your job before the disk crash happened, that job will not be available when you open the job next time.

So my advise would be to save the jobs at regular intervals and if you have GIT, copy the source code to GIT also at regular intervals.

Warm Regards,

Nikhil Thampi

Re: Help! Disappearing Job Design!

kewbsl — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 09:19:52 GMT

@nthampi wrote:

Hi,

If you have not saved your job before the disk crash happened, that job will not be available when you open the job next time.

So my advise would be to save the jobs at regular intervals and if you have GIT, copy the source code to GIT also at regular intervals.

Warm Regards,

Nikhil Thampi

Thanks for the reply. They definitely were saved. In fact, they were created almost a week ago, so they were saved before I turned my computer on. Even if none of my changes for that day had been saved, the job design should still be visible. I'll attach a screenshot of the files sitting in the folder.

Hm, now that I look at it, it's interesting that although the .item and .screenshot files are bigger than any of the equivalent files for the other job designs, the .properties file says 0kb (all the others are 2kb) so I'm now thinking maybe the file got corrupted during the attempted save and that's why it's broken. Possible clue there...

Untitled.png

Re: Help! Disappearing Job Design!

kewbsl — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 10:05:09 GMT

OK, we're back in business. For the benefit of anyone else who has the same issue, I'll list the steps taken.

Create a new job design called "expendable". Save it and close Talend
Go to the folder where the job designs are kept (in my case C:\MyProject\MYPROJECT\process)
Back up the properties file - in my case ExportDocsAsAttachments_0.1.properties
Open the properties files for expendable_0.1.properties
Copy the contents into the empty properties file of the missing job design
This file contains references to the name of the job design so change "expendable" to "ExportDocsAsAttachments" (or whatever your job is called) in the three places it appears
Save and close
Delete the three expendable files
Restart Talend
The job should now be there
Do a little dance of joy

NB in my case, both jobs were version 0_1, so all the instructions reference 0_1 in the file name. I guess if yours was a higher version your best bet would be to save the "expendable" job (in step 1) with the same version number and then follow the rest of the steps but adjusting so that 0_1 becomes 0_3 or whatever

Re: Help! Disappearing Job Design!

SCHULTHESS_PRODUKTION_AG_46449 — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 15:07:39 GMT

Had a similar/same issue where I could not see any Jobs due to them getting flagged as being deleted for unknow reason (.item, .properties, .screenshot files are still there with their content but the jobs were not visible in the Repository view in Talend Studio).

In that case, they could be found in the bin and restored from there. Or you can remove the `deleted="true"` entirely in the `.properties` file near the bottom of the respective job (in the process folder or sub-folder) and refresh the Repository view in Talend Studio.

<TalendProperties:ItemState ... deleted="true"/>

Re: Help! Disappearing Job Design!

Shicong_Hong — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 05:35:23 GMT

Thank you for sharing. This is another amazing solution.

Regards

Shicong