My Config folder has disappeared

[Tdwdotnet (TimW)]

My Config folder has disappeared. I can’t get to the samba share from my PC, nor see it in file editor. My Automations etc are still there and editable but I can’t edit see the YAML files. I have restarted HASS but it hasn’t come back. My media folder is still accessible.

When I try to access it with file editor I get this branch option, there are no branches and I can’t go back with the back arrow

Help!

[Steven2025 (Steven Low)]

Try Terminal & SSH and open WebUI ?

[Tdwdotnet (TimW)]

I have restored back a couple of days too , I’m pretty sure it was ok over the weekend

[Steven2025 (Steven Low)]

I thinks the Samba things related here:

Where is my configuration.yaml and config folder?

Thanks for helping. But I can’t find that IP address. I read that I had to use ifconfig command for that, but when I type it on my Oracle VM it asks me for a password. I have no idea what password is asking me. I enter anything and then it asks me for my home assistant login, I enter my home assistant login credentials and it tells me “login incorrect”. I also tried using Fing, and found out that my HA IP is 192.168.1.9. I enter that on my windows explorer and it tells me that “Windows needs …

You can find your automations with:

find / -name configuration.yaml 
find / -name automations.yaml

[Protoncek (Pavel)]

Did you reboot machine you run HA on? Not HA restart, but do a machine power toggle (Pi, VM… whatever you run HA on) . Similar happened to me once or twice in the past, but then i couldn’t even do a HA core restart. But after power toggle all went back to normal.

[Tdwdotnet (TimW)]

@Steven2025

find / -name configuration.yaml 
find / -name automations.yaml

Thank you, they were gone. I restored it. a 2 day old backup didn’t have the folders but a 3 day old did, I’m restoring my history now. fingers crossed

[Tdwdotnet (TimW)]

No, I should have tried that really , I restored. Interestingly days -1 & -2 restore didn’t have the missing data / folders but day -3 did, so I think it was fairly serious fault

[Protoncek (Pavel)]

Do you run HA on sd card? Dead card…?

[Tdwdotnet (TimW)]

I do run in on an SD card. The card seems OK after the restore but I’m going to have a backup on standby now. I had mad added several integrations and removed others in the days before the issue so I’m going to blame that process for now

[Protoncek (Pavel)]

Well, if i were you i’d get ssd as soon as possible, so low capacity are dirt cheap. Then run HA from that, you’ll save yourself a lot of similar problems in the future.

[Tdwdotnet (TimW)]

I have found the cause, removing the community add-on “Advanced SSH & Web Terminal” causes it. I did it on both my HomeAssistants yesterday without realising until too late. I will build another HASS tonight purely for testing this before raising a bug report.

[Tdwdotnet (TimW)]

removing the community add-on “Advanced SSH & Web Terminal” caused the issue. Restarting Home Assistant doesn’t fix the problem, a restart of the hardware is needed. RPI4s in my case

[Mariusthvdb (Marius)]

had the same eery experience yesterday (not sure if it was after updating the ESPhome add-on, or during a restore of a backup)

2025.5: Two Million Strong and Getting Better

Tried to get Better, didnt work out. tried to restore this mornings backup: complete /config folder got wiped… while in the Dashboard, an eery experience. [Scherm­afbeelding 2025-05-12 om 14.38.23] managed to get to the system menu items (my own yaml config is gone) and trying to restore once again, but this remains in view… o dear [Scherm­afbeelding 2025-05-12 om 14.44.12] can we somehow check if this is actually active, or hanging? I can still ssh in but ha core logs ends with: Fil…

stunning this can happen.

looking back, (the deletion of the Frontend happened twice) it seems that I could restart the system with the SSH terminal commands, while at the same time a Backup was restored.

Apparently the system does not have guards against those mutually lethal operations