# Restore pem files

**URL:** <https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/restore-pem-files/30128>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [March 18, 2017, 2:32pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/restore-pem-files/30128 "2017-03-18T14:32:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![trudger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6f9a4e/32.png) [@trudger](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/trudger)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2017, 2:53pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/restore-pem-files/30128/5 "2017-03-18T14:53:22Z")

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My bad, I think I deleted live and archive folders from /etc/letsencrypt but I’m not very sure. Anyway, I tried certbot-auto update\_symlinks but nothing changed. It writes a log file though:

2017-03-18 14:49:34,887:DEBUG:certbot.main:Root logging level set at 20  
2017-03-18 14:49:34,888:INFO:certbot.main:Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log  
2017-03-18 14:49:34,889:DEBUG:certbot.main:certbot version: 0.12.0  
2017-03-18 14:49:34,889:DEBUG:certbot.main:Arguments: []  
2017-03-18 14:49:34,890:DEBUG:certbot.main:Discovered plugins: PluginsRegistry(PluginEntryPoint#standalone,PluginEntryPoint#manual,PluginEntryPoint#nginx,PluginEntryPoint#webroot,PluginEntryPoint#apache,PluginEntryPoint#null)

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