# Node Red fails to open if I don't have internet access because of lack of material-icons

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-fails-to-open-if-i-dont-have-internet-access-because-of-lack-of-material-icons/70925>\
**Category:** Dashboard\
**Tags:** node-red-dashboard\
**Created:** [20 November 2022 15:46 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-fails-to-open-if-i-dont-have-internet-access-because-of-lack-of-material-icons/70925 "2022-11-20T15:46:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![vra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e95f7d/32.png) [@vra](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/vra)\
**Post date:** [23 November 2022 14:39 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-fails-to-open-if-i-dont-have-internet-access-because-of-lack-of-material-icons/70925/21 "2022-11-23T14:39:26Z")

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I just checked, the problem of the icons was also solved by your suggestion so I,m putting it as a solution.

the package.json of the original .node-red folder only has this (for this time I already unninstalled the dashboard-evi)

```auto
{
  "name": "node-red-project",
  "description": "initially created for you by Node-RED 3.0.2",
  "version": "0.0.1",
  "private": true,
  "dependencies": {
    "node-red-contrib-dashboard-average-bars": "~0.0.6",
    "node-red-contrib-dashboard-bar-chart-data": "~0.9.8",
    "node-red-contrib-dashboard-sum-bars": "~0.0.1",
    "node-red-contrib-home-assistant-discovery": "^0.0.7",
    "node-red-contrib-home-assistant-websocket": "~0.44.0",
    "node-red-contrib-home-assistant-ws": "^0.0.1",
    "node-red-contrib-modbus": "~5.23.2",
    "node-red-contrib-norelite-homeassistant": "^1.1.0",
    "node-red-contrib-play-audio": "^2.5.0",
    "node-red-dashboard": "~3.1.7",
    "node-red-node-pi-gpio": "^2.0.5",
    "node-red-node-ping": "^0.3.1",
    "node-red-node-random": "^0.4.0",
    "node-red-node-serialport": "^1.0.1",
    "node-red-node-smooth": "^0.1.2",
    "node-red-node-twitter": "~1.2.0"
  }
}

```

, anyway the old .node-red folder remains for doing what @zenofmud suggested

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**Author:** ![Colin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/colin/32/17040_2.png) [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)\
**Post date:** [23 November 2022 15:20 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-fails-to-open-if-i-dont-have-internet-access-because-of-lack-of-material-icons/70925/22 "2022-11-23T15:20:28Z")

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I don't see any problems there. Can you post the old settings.js please, I meant to ask for that last time too.

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**Author:** ![vra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e95f7d/32.png) [@vra](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/vra)\
**Post date:** [24 November 2022 17:33 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-fails-to-open-if-i-dont-have-internet-access-because-of-lack-of-material-icons/70925/23 "2022-11-24T17:33:42Z")

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me neither, here is the settings.js  
[settings.pdf](https://discourse.nodered.org/uploads/short-url/z9ehv1eHWFdkhCwkyz8EJjKvZlm.pdf) (42.7 KB)

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**Author:** ![Colin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/colin/32/17040_2.png) [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)\
**Post date:** [24 November 2022 20:38 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-fails-to-open-if-i-dont-have-internet-access-because-of-lack-of-material-icons/70925/24 "2022-11-24T20:38:19Z")

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Nothing wrong there either as far as I can see. I think this may remain one of the great unsolved mysteries of the century.

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**Author:** ![vra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e95f7d/32.png) [@vra](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/vra)\
**Post date:** [24 November 2022 20:54 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-fails-to-open-if-i-dont-have-internet-access-because-of-lack-of-material-icons/70925/25 "2022-11-24T20:54:55Z")

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Jajaja..yes!

I think it gave some conflict with the core of the node-red app itself when I had both node-red dashboard and dashboard-evi and consequently damaged the node-red app itself.

I think that because I read in anothe post around there that dashboard-evi is a fork of the official node-red dashboard.

Another thing is that you must remember, for the time being when I had both files you asked me then the dashboard-evi was unninstalled, may be for that reason can't be seen anything wrong on those files.

Anyway, your suggestion of renaming the .node-red folder and starting node-red again worked well so thank you.

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**Author:** ![Colin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/colin/32/17040_2.png) [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)\
**Post date:** [24 November 2022 21:10 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-fails-to-open-if-i-dont-have-internet-access-because-of-lack-of-material-icons/70925/26 "2022-11-24T21:10:31Z")

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> [@vra](#):
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> consequently damaged the node-red app itself.

If that had happened then removing the .node-red folder would not have fixed it. You are still using the same node-red app that you were before. It was probably something in your flows that was causing the problem.

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**Author:** ![vra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e95f7d/32.png) [@vra](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/vra)\
**Post date:** [25 November 2022 15:03 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-fails-to-open-if-i-dont-have-internet-access-because-of-lack-of-material-icons/70925/27 "2022-11-25T15:03:55Z")

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ok ok, thanks for the clarification.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/1X/d073cd938eafa2e558d7c2cd59003b3ef4963033.png) [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [9 December 2022 15:04 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-fails-to-open-if-i-dont-have-internet-access-because-of-lack-of-material-icons/70925/28 "2022-12-09T15:04:38Z")

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