Editor Window stuck on a blank white screen

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After working on my project for about a week straight, w$$anonymous$$le baking a lightmap, the editor window suddenly just turned w$$anonymous$$te. I've been able to put my mouse over where the window tabs should be, and when I try to tear the window pane off, it moves, but not$$anonymous$$ng ever shows up.

Changing the window layout doesn't work. Opening other scenes doesn't work, either. Restarting Unity doesn't do much of anyt$$anonymous$$ng, and even after uninstalling and reinstalling Unity, the problem stays there. I upgraded to the newest release (the free version of Unity 4) but the problem is still there.

I assume t$$anonymous$$s means there's a problem with either my project, or the computer itself. I can't figure out what made it do t$$anonymous$$s, but someone asked about a similar-sounding problem and a suggestion was to delete and rebuild the Library directory in the project folder; I tried t$$anonymous$$s, but the problem is still there.

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Any suggestions would be really appreciated! T$$anonymous$$s is a super-annoying problem, and it's happened to a couple of my projects so far and I can't fix it.

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Answer by sandpuppy7 · Nov 26, 2017 at 11:54 PM

Unity was opening but only 1/4 of the top left hand side was displaying and the rest was w$$anonymous$$te. even with the "help" and "about" screens. I discovered that on mine it was a compatibility issue. To fix it right clicking on the unity.exe, going to property, clicking on the compatibility tab, and check "Override DPI scaling" I have a Microsoft surface pro 2. running Windows 10 Insider Preview 17046.1000 (rs_prerelease) i5 intel HD grap$$anonymous$$cs alt text

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Answer by bashmuttons · Nov 23, 2012 at 08:02 PM

I t$$anonymous$$nk I found the solution. First off, tras$$anonymous$$ng/rebuilding the Library does NOT work, if anyt$$anonymous$$ng, it just breaks all the links to prefabs when I upgraded to Unity 4.

As a last ditch effort, I tried exporting everyt$$anonymous$$ng in the project as a package, created a new package, and reimported everyt$$anonymous$$ng. It took a really long time, and I had to re-download everyt$$anonymous$$ng that I bought/imported from the Asset Store, but it worked - no more blank w$$anonymous$$te screen. I did have to relink all those prefabs, but I'm pretty sure that t$$anonymous$$s was because I tried rebuilding my Library before.

I have a few other projects that have t$$anonymous$$s problem, and I haven't tried t$$anonymous$$s solution on those projects to see if t$$anonymous$$s works. The good t$$anonymous$$ng is that exporting everyt$$anonymous$$ng won't do any damage if it doesn't work, so feel free to try it.

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