# Was this supposed to be fixed or is it still a known bug? (recovered elements that randomly appear when reopening)

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**Category:** Elements\
**Created:** [October 17, 2025, 9:14pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/was-this-supposed-to-be-fixed-or-is-it-still-a-known-bug-recovered-elements-that-randomly-appear-when-reopening/51814 "2025-10-17T21:14:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jupeman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/67e7ee/32.png) [@Jupeman](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/Jupeman)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2025, 9:14pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/was-this-supposed-to-be-fixed-or-is-it-still-a-known-bug-recovered-elements-that-randomly-appear-when-reopening/51814/1 "2025-10-17T21:14:51Z")

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RapidWeaver Elements 1.4.0 (23889)

This is not consistently recreated, but when I close a project and re-open it _sometimes_ a slew of recovered items are magically created, linked to globals, and you have to go on a search mission throughout _the entire_ project to find where these were created and added. It is tedious to find. I thought this bug had been fixed, but it happened to me again on Elements 1.4.

Examples in these screen shots. All of these elements were simply added when opening my project file.

I’m back to being scared to saving and closing my project file! But I also don’t like to leave my project file open when I’m not working on it for fear of other corruption (computer unexpectedly shuts off or whatever).

 ![Screenshot 2025-10-17 at 4.49.51 PM](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/realmacsoftware1/original/3X/c/9/c9309dc6841573d738b0a6ce1ce61e56a26b6659.png)

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**Author:** ![dan](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/dan/32/28516_2.png) [@dan](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/dan)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2025, 9:33pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/was-this-supposed-to-be-fixed-or-is-it-still-a-known-bug-recovered-elements-that-randomly-appear-when-reopening/51814/2 "2025-10-17T21:33:06Z")

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A fix is in the works, but in the meantime we have a self-repair menu item you can use to remove those nodes.

Details here 👉 [Support Guide | RapidWeaver Elements Docs](https://docs.realmacsoftware.com/elements-docs/getting-started/troubleshooting#document-repaired-warning-dialog)

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**Author:** ![Jupeman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/67e7ee/32.png) [@Jupeman](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/Jupeman)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2025, 11:37am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/was-this-supposed-to-be-fixed-or-is-it-still-a-known-bug-recovered-elements-that-randomly-appear-when-reopening/51814/3 "2025-10-18T11:37:12Z")

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Thanks, Dan, didn’t see that. I’m a little confused what an “orphan node” is because it sounds like this is something I’ve done and left awry in my project. Is it the case that this is human error?