My hierarchy panel suddenly became blank but the rest of my scene is still visible. Is there a fix?

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I was just working on the scene and then suddenly noticed that the hierarchy panel was blank.

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My scene was still visible and I could select objects and see their properties in the inspector Panel.

I can still search for objects in my hierarchy panel and they will appear greyed out. Also the parenting of objects is no longer visible.

If I click on the arrows they will sometimes open up and show the objects inside them but most of them just open and show nothing.

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Other than that the rest of the project is functioning normally.

Has anyone ever ran into a similar issue?

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i was having this error and came to look here for a solution, but then i opened the scene from a different project and it worked… :confused: maybe the reloading fixed it… maybe it’s a trick, idk try it hope it works :slight_smile:

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I had this problem and it turned out that all the names had been removed. I clicked on where the objects would show if they were visible in the hierarchy and then I wrote a name for the objects in the inspector. I hope this helps.

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I am exactly on the same page. Have been Googling for a while and it seems this error can come from very different sources…In my case, I was trying to open a Unity 2017 project in a Unity 5.4.3 machine. I thought I wouldn’t have such big errors in such a small project.