Typical use it to run PAT projects from the boot drive. If you make a new PAT project does it have the same issue, or is it unique to this project? If the project is with a specific project it can help to follow these steps
- Quit PAT and restart computer (restart gets rid of orphan processes)
- Next to your pat.json are a number of additional files. Backup a copy of the project directory for safety, and then delete everything but (pat.json, measures, seeds, weather, files, and scripts)
- start PAT and load your project
- .- start the local server

Typical use it to run PAT projects from the boot drive. If you make a new PAT project does it have the same issue, or is it unique to this project? If the project is with a specific project it can help to follow these steps
- Quit PAT and restart computer (restart gets rid of orphan processes)
- Next to your pat.json are a number of additional files. Backup a copy of the project directory for safety, and then delete everything but (pat.json, measures, seeds, weather, files, and scripts)
- start PAT and load your project
.- start the local serverproject