Have you tried inside Desktop/Lovelace with terminal?
try without the single quotes
‘cd /config’
‘ls -al’
Thanks! That shows the same:
total 0
(For some reason I can’t copy from the web terminal - but the output is the same as when I ssh’ed in.)
Did you resolve this? I also restored from a backup recently and just noticed that my /config folder is empty. I’m running the latest of everything (Core is 2022.5.5).
My issue is resolved, at least for now. I looked at the console and saw some “Out of memory” errors. Then I noticed that HA stopped responding altogether. A reboot fixed it and now I can see the files in the /config directory.
after trying to copy something from the Lovelace terminal today the content of my config folders doesn’t show anything.
-> / ls -al
...
drwxr-xr-x 0 root root 0 Jun 23 19:57 config
...
interestingly Check Configuration in dev tools still shows configuration ok
Have you tried using cd config
You are in the root directory as evidenced by the / in your command and drwxr-xr-x label in ls output.
I have, what you also can see in the ls extract is that the directory size is 0 which seems suspicious
restored partial backup from latest core update, backup actually contains the config folder but after restarting nothing changed regarding local config folder.
daniels-MBP:~ daniel$ ssh homeassistant.local
| | | | /\ (_) | | | |
| |__| | ___ _ __ ___ ___ / \ ___ ___ _ ___| |_ __ _ _ __ | |_
| __ |/ _ \| '_ \ _ \ / _ \ / /\ \ / __/ __| / __| __/ _\ | '_ \| __|
| | | | (_) | | | | | | __/ / ____ \\__ \__ \ \__ \ || (_| | | | | |_
|_| |_|\___/|_| |_| |_|\___| /_/ \_\___/___/_|___/\__\__,_|_| |_|\__|
Welcome to the Home Assistant command line.
System information
IPv4 addresses for eth0: 192.168.17.40/24
IPv4 addresses for wlan0:
IPv4 addresses for enp1s0u1u2: 10.30.0.100/24
OS Version: Home Assistant OS 8.2
Home Assistant Core: 2022.6.6
Home Assistant URL: http://homeassistant.local:8123
Observer URL: http://homeassistant.local:4357
➜ ~ ll
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Jun 16 16:24 addons -> /addons
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Jun 16 16:24 backup -> /backup
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Jun 16 16:24 config -> /config
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Jun 16 16:24 media -> /media
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Jun 16 16:24 share -> /share
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Jun 16 16:24 ssl -> /ssl
➜ ~ ll /config
total 0
➜ ~ ll /
total 120K
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Feb 3 2021 addons
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Jun 23 20:21 backup
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4.0K Jun 11 05:43 bin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12.0K Mar 8 14:55 command
drwxr-xr-x 0 root root 0 Jun 23 19:57 config
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Jun 16 16:24 data
drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4.0K Jun 16 16:17 dev
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4.0K Jun 16 16:24 etc
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4.0K Jun 16 16:24 home
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 907 Mar 8 14:55 init
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4.0K Jun 11 06:02 lib
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Feb 3 2021 media
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K May 24 04:53 mnt
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K May 24 04:53 opt
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4.0K Mar 8 14:55 package
dr-xr-xr-x 300 root root 0 Jun 16 16:24 proc
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4.0K Jun 24 21:26 root
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4.0K Jun 16 16:24 run
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4.0K Jun 11 06:02 sbin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Feb 3 2021 share
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K May 24 04:53 srv
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Feb 3 2021 ssl
dr-xr-xr-x 12 root root 0 Jan 1 1970 sys
drwxrwxrwt 1 root root 4.0K Jun 24 21:26 tmp
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4.0K Jun 11 05:43 usr
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4.0K Jun 11 05:43 var
➜ ~
seems that the folder has been corrupted on Jun 23 19:57
Now everything still works fine and as mentioned earlier ‘Check Configuration’ in Dev Tools tells me that the Configuration is valid.
Is there a way to fix this strange issue or do I need to reinstall everything from scratch?
Had some more thoughts about the issue and as ha is running as a docker container on the py4 it is only the mapping of the config folder to the docker container that might be broken.
Considering this I rebooted the host and /config is back to normal 
Just for the records if someone else stumbles over this tread.
Be aware that after restoring a backup you might need to restart the host to fix broken links into the docker container running HA.
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I ran into the same issue, restoring a backup. Reboot fixed it.
Thanks everyone! I finally had time to loop back to the issue. Sure enough, a simple host reboot solved my issue.
I came across a similar issue today on 2022.8.4 (RPi), where in the Lovelave/File Editor NO files appeared under /config directory. Subdirectories appeared normally, with all files within subdirectories visible. Neither HASSOS restarts or server reboot resolved this, and my HA config was working normally.
I noticed all files were visible on a network connected Windows PC (samba share, I think), and using HA Terminal the ls command listed all files. I eventually noticed a file under /config with the name ???@@??, visible under Terminal but not Windows.
Using rm I couldn’t delete the file, but the following steps (using Terminal) worked for me:
cd config
ls -li
This lists files with their unique “inode” as the first field on each row. I was then able to delete the file using the find command.
find . -inum <insert_inode_for_file_to_delete> -delete
eg. find . -inum 1467823 -delete
Not sure if this would be classified as a bug within Terminal?
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Thanks, I run into the same issue today, reboot of my orchard solved it
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Thanks for this.
Got the same issue after restoring from backup. Restart of the host helped and resolved the issue.
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I am having the same issue. Any and all help appreciated greatly.
It started this morning and I have restored backup from 5 days ago, but not luck. I am rebooting between restores.
Of course nothing shows up in Studio Code Server either.
I tried to create a new YAML file and got an error.
I’m running the Generic x86-64 install.
Had the same issue today, went into Add-Ons, File editor and clicked “configuration” then “Directories First” also restarted Samba Share whilst in the add-ons section and BOOM file editor came back
Yeah, there have been daily updates of core and my config folder is back after one of the updates and restarts.
Thanks,
I just had the same issue after restoring a backup.
I was a little nerves about restarting while the config folder was empty, but did so anyway and everything now is back.
Restart of host helped me with empty config folder 
Thank you.
Hooooo you saved my life, i’ve been trying to solve this for month, and I had a file same as you.
Thx a lot !!!