Grey Window When Opening Existing Project - RStudio Pro 2025.05.1 - RHEL 8

Hello,

I frequently have users of our Rstudio Server Pro system that have existing RStudio Projects created within CIFS mounted network share that just show a blank grey screen when someone attempts to open them.

I just end up telling the user to recreate the RStudio project, anyone aware of a way to trouble shoot this scenario or a likely cause?

Thanks
Stuart

I recommend going through official support channels for the commercial version of RStudio. https://support.posit.co/hc/en-us/requests/new

No idea if it will help in this case, but one thing to try when having problems with RStudio Projects on network shares (or locations that are synced with a cloud drive) is keeping the .Rproj.user folder on a local drive. You can do this via Project Options:

If that proves helpful, it can be configured for all users in RStudio Server Pro via these settings: