Collection 'workflows' lock timeout when entering in write mode after 00:01:00

Gabriel_Artiola · December 3, 2025, 1:28pm

Hi,

Need help. I cannot save my workflow and giving me this error.

What could possibly wrong?

Allan_Zimmermann · December 3, 2025, 7:37pm

This can happen if OpenRPA was not closed properly while writing to the database. Are you connected to an OpenFlow instance? If so, you can just delete the file and it will download all workflows again. If not, you can try to delete the lock file and hope the file was not corrupted. (Make a copy of BOTH files before you do anything.)

Gabriel_Artiola · December 4, 2025, 5:42am

Thank you Allan,

Just found out that the folder %userprofile%/Documents is under CFA, and that is where OpenRPA folder is stored, so any changes are getting blocked including the OpenRPA changes.

Now, based from the documentation, i can move the OpenRPA folder to AppData folder and it takes precedence. But the issue is, the application is still using the OpenRPA from Document folder.

Do i have to delete the one in Document folder so AppData OpenRPA will work?

Note that i do not have enough permission to delete folders

Thank you

Allan_Zimmermann · December 4, 2025, 10:24am

OpenRPA looks for settings.json in 2 places, it starts in %home%\documents\OpenRPA\settings.json and if not found looks in ApplicationData + \OpenRPA\settings.json

so simply delete the settings.json file from documents\OpenRPA\settings.json

github.com/open-rpa/openrpa

OpenRPA.Interfaces/Config.cs

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              {
                  SecureData.AppendChar(c);
              }
              return SecureData;
          }
          private static Config _local = null;
          public static string SettingsFile
          {
              get
              {
                  string filename = "settings.json";
                  var fi = new System.IO.FileInfo(filename);
                  var _fileName = System.IO.Path.GetFileName(filename);
                  var di = fi.Directory;
                  var MyDocuments = Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.MyDocuments);
                  var MyDocumentsOpenRPA = System.IO.Path.Combine(MyDocuments, "OpenRPA");
                  var AppData = Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.ApplicationData);
                  var AppDataOpenRPA = System.IO.Path.Combine(AppData, "OpenRPA");
          
                  if (System.IO.File.Exists(System.IO.Path.Combine(AppDataOpenRPA, "settings.json")))
                  {

Gabriel_Artiola · December 9, 2025, 12:27pm

Thanks Allan,

I was able to make the application use the one from AppData, I missed the part were the OpenRPA folder should be inside Roaming folder.

system · December 16, 2025, 12:28pm

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