topic Backing up/Restoring .META files in QlikView https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Backing-up-Restoring-META-files/m-p/1359199#M1250191 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi,</P><P></P><P>We've had an incident where-by in our NonProd environment, all the documents except 1, lost their .META file. A user was reassigning categories when they all reset to default.</P><P></P><P>This is very unusual and after raising a call, the only way to get them back, was to re-assign the category.</P><P></P><P>With over 500 documents, I wondered if it was possible to back up these .META files and in the event they are lost again, restore them (between stopping and starting the services). </P><P></P><P>Does anyone have any experience on this or know if this is possible? This is in 12.0.10 SR6, but happened in SR1</P><P></P><P>Thanks in advance<BR />Sean</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:19:17 GMT 2026-01-26T18:19:17Z Backing up/Restoring .META files https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Backing-up-Restoring-META-files/m-p/1359199#M1250191 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi,</P><P></P><P>We've had an incident where-by in our NonProd environment, all the documents except 1, lost their .META file. A user was reassigning categories when they all reset to default.</P><P></P><P>This is very unusual and after raising a call, the only way to get them back, was to re-assign the category.</P><P></P><P>With over 500 documents, I wondered if it was possible to back up these .META files and in the event they are lost again, restore them (between stopping and starting the services). </P><P></P><P>Does anyone have any experience on this or know if this is possible? This is in 12.0.10 SR6, but happened in SR1</P><P></P><P>Thanks in advance<BR />Sean</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:19:17 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Backing-up-Restoring-META-files/m-p/1359199#M1250191 2026-01-26T18:19:17Z