Insomnia: [Bug] Blank screen on Insomnia start-up

[simonl65]

• Insomnia Version: 5.14.9
• Operating System: Win10 x64

Details

Have been using Insomnia all morning OK but after reloading it the application window is blank.

DevTools Console shows [db] Initialized DB client

Steps to reproduce:

Open Insomnia (with or without admin' priv's)

Outcome:

Blank application window.

Expected outcome:

Insomnia application!

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[simonl65]

FYI: Still the same after uninstalling and re-installing, however it is working on another PC, even after reloading it. I'll investigate further...

[simonl65]

Still fails after PC reboot. Will try uninstall / removing all insomnia file / re-install...

[simonl65]

Well it's working again, but - of course - I don't have any of my settings. Is there any way I can retrieve them from the files I saved earlier?

[simonl65]

Figured it out - I copied the following files back into the %APPDATA%\Insomnia folder:

insomnia.Environment.db
insomnia.Request.db
insomnia.RequestGroup.db
insomnia.RequestGroupMeta.db
insomnia.requestMeta.db
insomnia.RequestVersion.db
insomnia.Settings.db
insomnia.Workspace.db
insomnia.WorkspaceMeta.db
Preferences

[gschier]

That's quite strange. I can't think of a scenario where it would show a white screen without there being an error in the Console. Perhaps it was stuck loading something. Did you have any large request or response bodies?

[simonl65]

There _may_ have been a larg response body (most of my API calls result in such) but it had been working just fine (been using Insomnia for some months now 🥇). Since re-installation and file copying everything has been working fine. Thanks for your response though.

[SiliconValet]

I have a situation where a large response body appears to have caused a white screen. Any way to flush those?

[gschier]

You can delete the responses folder within Insomnia's data directory

%APPDATA% on Windows
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME or ~/.config on Linux
~/Library/Application Support on macOS

[SiliconValet]

Success! not sure which of localStorage or plugins folder was the cause in my case for future readers. (I deleted both)

[ViggoV]

I have a similar issue on Mac, but deleting localStorage/, plugins/ and responses/ didn't help. When launching Insomnia I get a blank screen for about 20s and then a crash.. No info, no log, no option to do anything.. Just the little beachball of death :/

Edit: Completely removing ~/Library/Insomnia directory did the trick, but cost me all my data.

[toymachiner62]

You only have to delete all the responses (or at a minimum find the large one that's causing the issue) from ~/Library/Application Support/Insomnia/responses. You won't lose all your data this way!

[ViggoV]

As described above I removed the three folders that have been suggested in this thread first, including responses, but it didn’t work.. So yes, in my case I did have to lose all my data..