Jenkins deletes jobs on restart or reloading configuration from disk

Question

I've just updated to the latest version of Jenkins (1.488) for Windows 7 (64-bit), but it seems that if I restart Jenkins or select the Reload Configuration from Disk option, the jobs that I have configured disappear. If I create a new job, I can see it under JENKINS_HOME/jobs but, for some reason, Jenkins is not able to pull these jobs back into memory.

Any ideas what I could try?

Are your permissions on the jobs folder correct? Can you make sure that the entire folder (JENKINS_HOME) is owned by the jenkins user and that it has full control? — Sagar
Are the jobs really deleted, or just not shown by Jenkins in the web UI? — hyde

Gonen Gonen · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-13T11:11:31

This is probably related to permissions, as mentioned by Sagar above.

Make sure the user running the Jenkins (or the service running Jenkins)
is the owner of the %JENKINS_HOME% folder-tree
and that it has full permissions to all items there.

Jenkins deletes jobs on restart or reloading configuration from disk

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