Hi,
What I did to get this error was delete the one and only "Project". After deleting and necessarily having to restart Neo4j, this message pops up. I've tried:
Deleting the Neo4jData folder, uninstalling Neo4j Desktop completely, and reinstalling to a new directory.
The same error persists. How can I fix it?
I searched google and found this:
opened 12:00AM - 29 Dec 19 UTC
closed 09:54AM - 02 Jan 20 UTC
bug
Two days back, I deleted some unused projects from Neo4j Desktop (to create more… space to load my next dataset). Today, when I tried to start up Neo4j Desktop again, I get this error -
I tried restarting Neo4j Desktop several times, and each time, it's the same thing.
I checked the "developer tools" tab, and there is a whole bunch of stuff in the console. I put all of it in this [gist](https://gist.github.com/Manish-Giri/9231a6236ed4dc0f4073e68c8765ef75), if it helps.
Here's the relevant portion of the console which has this error message -
There are **several** questions on stack overflow where people report the exact same issue. Here's one from [SO](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48998760/neo4j-initialization-error-typeerror-cannot-read-property-name-of-undefined) where Michael Hunger said on **March 1, 2018** that it was a known bug and it would be resolved in the next release. Obviously, that never happened.
Other reported issues - [1](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50153885/neo4j-error-win-10-initialization-error-typeerror-cannot-read-property-n), [2](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49878591/neo4j-initialization-error-typeerror-cannot-read-property-name-of-undefined), [3](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49198296/neo4j-desktop-error-on-open-cannot-read-property-name-of-undefined)
The problem is that the suggested solution involves deleting this path - `~/Library/Application Support/Neo4j Desktop` and reinstalling Neo4j Desktop. I cannot do a reinstall since my thesis is on Neo4j, and all of my data (~around 400GB) is already on neo4j desktop. It also took me months to load all the datasets.
~~I'm hesitant to delete that folder even, in case it causes loss of data.~~ I cannot delete the `~/Library/Application Support/Neo4j Desktop` folder, because the folder size is ~400GB, approximately the same size as my datasets, so obviously my data is all in that folde
I would appreciate any help, since I really need to finish loading my next dataset, where each relationship takes several hours to load, as it is.
- Neo4j version: 3.5.14
- Operating system: macOS Catalina
- Neo4j Desktop version: 1.2.3
PS: I know there is a separate repository for [neo4j-desktop](https://github.com/neo4j-apps/neo4j-desktop/issues), but there seems to be no activity there on reported issues for a long time, so I'm posting here.
But there are no instructions on what to do.
