# Resync Local Types in IDA

Sometimes there's some inconsistency between local types and structs view. 

Typically, you can see the type in the "Structures" view are zero-lengthed, which should normally be the same size as local type's one.

When this happens, you'll not be able to rename the structure fields in HexRay Decompiler's view, and both hotkey N and right-clicking the item won't show the rename popup.

After reverse engineering the hexx64.dll, I found that IDA tries to do the following things:

```
if (vd->item->get_memptr()) { /* Add the rename handler */ }
```

and in `get_memptr()`, it's doing:
```
const char *name = expr->x->type.get_type_name()
struc_t *struc = get_struc(get_struc_id(name))
member_t *member  = get_member(struc, expr->m)
```

After debugging, it seems that name and struc can be retrieved, but member are not. Replaying the operations in IDAPython also fails.

I thought it's because that IDA didn't import the type correctly last time, so I wrote the script above to fix it.