I uploaded a few files to the assets folder and they seem to now be hidden from the editor view.
When clicking on the assets folder I get the following message:
No Assets Yet
Drag files from your desktop to use them in your project
I’m still able to access the assets directly via their absolute URL, so I assume they are still somewhere (unless they are just cached in your CDN?)
Any ideas? Or are assets not persistent by design?
Project name is interactionlab, if that helps.
Thanks!
This is a bug. I’ve raised a ticket for the issue and we’ll try and get it resolved quickly.
Thanks Gareth.
Anything that can be done to avoid this issue in the interim? Need to make
a call soon if we’re going to use Glitch this semester & this might be a
dealbreaker if we can’t reliably work around it.
You can rename/remove the .glitch-assets file via the console and that will give you a new one which works.
I don’t expect you to encounter this issue again - we have half a million active projects and I’ve seen this bug occur 4-5 times.
As @gareth said, but after you remove/rename the file, you should run the refresh command in the Terminal to trigger a reload of the editor files.
I ran rm .glitch-assets; refresh from terminal, still getting the “No Assets Yet” message. Am I missing something?
I’m also getting a blank editor view when clicking the assets folder on occasion. Clicking back out to another file and back in seems to solve it. Is this bug on your radar?
Thanks again.
But are you able to upload assets again?
Yes, it relates to the same bug I mentioned I’ve recorded above.
Doesn’t look like it - getting the following message:
File upload failed. Try again in a few minutes?
Will all the original assets need to be re-uploaded?
Uploading seems to work to a different project I have open here, so I assume it’s specific to this container.
Do you have a sense of what triggers this? Would be good to understand so that we can avoid it.
Which project are you seeing this in?
Yes, it’s just this one project but it seems to be working ok now. At least, I can see an uploaded file listed. We’ll resolve the underlying cause.
@creativecomputing,
we’re working on debugging the root of what caused this issue in the first place. Can you give us more information about what you uploaded to the assets? Is it possible that you uploaded over 100mb or so of files?
Project name is interactionlab.
I was able to upload files again once I removed my gitignore – the downside being that .glitch-assets and other metadata files are now pushed to GH.
There were 10 files in total, less than 10 MB in total, each file under 1MB, aside from one which was around 5.
Are you able to restore the existing files or do they need to be re-uploaded?
From the terminal, you can run:
git checkout 64c4da4d4389d129b79574b521d56708f72a139c -- .glitch-assets
it should restore a previous working version of .glitch-assets
That worked - thank you!
So these assets are persistent on your CDN? Or do they expire after some time?
If we don’t use a gitignore file, can we expect this to not happen again, or is there another underlying issue?
Thanks again
I don’t think .gitignore is related to this issue. I do have .gitignore’s in my projects and they work fine. To be honest we still didn’t figure out why you had the issue 
In general using git to checkout a working version of .glitch-assets and then running refresh should get you back to a working state, but if it happens again to you, please let us know!
Strange - I’m able to reliably reproduce it here by adding a gitignore back in. Is there something specific to this project that’s broken? If you have a look now, you can see it’s having the same issue…
oh, you’re reproducing the missing file, not the “Reconnecting…” message… yeah, thanks for that, that’s an easy fix We’ll release it shortly.
I guess I’m still confused - the issue is related to gitignore or something else?
Again, would be helpful to know so that we can avoid confusion here – rolling things back via a git checkout is going to be non-optimal w/ beginning students.
Thanks again
Sorry, it was me being silly; yes, there is a bug in our code that is triggered by .gitignore, but I’ve identified it. I’ll let you know when the fix is released so you can check if the behavior is now correct
We should’ve fixed the issue. Can you please check to confirm ?
Yup - seems to work now. Thanks for that.
Just to confirm - these assets will persist on your CDN indefinitely? Or are they wiped periodically? In other words - can I reference those URLs & expect them to be valid through June?
Thanks again
We don’t currently remove or expire any of the assets you upload. Of course for the future we can only guarantee that the assets listed in the assets file won’t be deleted
Hi guys -
Alllll of my assets are once again gone… did some kind of regression happen here?
Thanks again for your help.
This happened because you added .glitch-assets to your .gitignore today. It’s a bug that this makes them disappear, but you really don’t want to ignore that file. The bug should be fixed in a few minutes.
Hi Tim - We didn’t make any edits to .gitignore until the files disappeared (.glitch-assets has been in there for some time… at least since the bug was fixed the last time around). I did remove .glitch-assets once the bug reappeared.
I can just keep the .glitch-assets in my repo - no problem - but is it going to be possible to restore the existing assets to the project?
Thanks again
Ah, I see. I was looking at it backwards. I restored the assets. I also added a .env file to your project for now - we have an editor bug that doesn’t like projects without that file. I should have that fixed this morning, so you can delete the file tomorrow if you like.
Thanks Tim -
I noticed a .lesshst file was added as well - can that be added safely to gitignore or should we avoid using gitignore all together?
You should be fine using .gitignore. I wouldn’t add .glitch-assets to it, because that’s a file you would like to keep the history of. I just misunderstood what caused your problem yesterday - I thought it was adding .glitch-assets to .gitignore that had messed things up. .lesshst is exactly the kind of thing you want in .gitignore. I fixed the .env issue too, so you can delete that now.
We’re running into this bug with this project (https://glitch.com/~ultra-rutabaga) two of the earlier uploaded assets aren’t listed, but are served up just fine when showing the webpage.
What are the names of the files you aren’t seeing listed?
