# Lost Project Variables
**URL:** https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/lost-project-variables/3296
**Category:** Bugs
**Created:** [September 21, 2010, 10:34am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/lost-project-variables/3296 "2010-09-21T10:34:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@timfrost](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/timfrost)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2010, 10:34am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/lost-project-variables/3296/1 "2010-09-21T10:34:25Z")
Using build 642, Windows 7 64-bit. I have a desktop icon which runs FBCMD to build a project. It stopped on a missing source file error, so I opened FB7 IDE to fix it, forgetting to close the CMD window. When I came to save the project, a pop-up told me that the project file was locked, so I cancelled, closed the CMD window, then did the save again. Result: all project variables had disappeared from the project. Luckily I was able to restore from a copy of the project file and only had to repeat the minor fix to correct a pathname.
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### Author:  [@Vincent](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/Vincent)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2010, 1:06am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/lost-project-variables/3296/2 "2010-09-21T01:06:56Z")
Hi Tim
Hmmm… not good. I’ll try to reproduce it and see what we can do about it, thanks for providing the steps.