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title: "Troubleshooting"
description: "Troubleshooting: the Writing Room plugin for Sanity Studio."
canonical_url: https://writingroom.studio/docs/troubleshooting/
plugin_version: 0.3.0
license: MIT
---

# Troubleshooting

**"The Writing Room can't start in this Studio yet."** The room and the Studio are using different copies of Sanity's App SDK. On a deployed Studio, turn off auto-updates ([Install](https://writingroom.studio/docs/install.md), step 3) and deploy again. In `sanity dev`, run `npm ls @sanity/sdk-react`: it should appear at a single version. If you've linked the plugin (`npm link`, `file:`, a workspace) instead of installing it, add `sanity`, `react`, `react-dom`, `styled-components`, `@sanity/sdk-react` and `@portabletext/editor` to Vite's `resolve.dedupe` in `sanity.cli.ts`.

**Yarn, or two copies of the SDK.** npm (7+) and pnpm install the plugin's peer dependencies for you, and share `@sanity/sdk-react` and `@portabletext/editor` with Sanity when your `sanity` version is in range. Yarn doesn't install peers: add `@sanity/sdk-react@^3.12.0` and `@portabletext/editor@^8.2.12` yourself. To check, run `npm ls @sanity/sdk-react @portabletext/editor`: each should appear at a single version.

**A type is missing from the Lobby.** Open the browser console: the room says why it left a type out (not in the schema, or no title or body it could find). Name the field with `fields` if it guessed wrong.

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Writing Room is MIT licensed and free, made by [Zephyr Pixels](https://zephyrpixels.dev). Bugs and questions go to [GitHub issues](https://github.com/mematthew123/sanity-plugin-writing-room/issues). More: [About](https://writingroom.studio/about.md), [Contact](https://writingroom.studio/contact.md), [Privacy](https://writingroom.studio/privacy.md).

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