Ugh. save failed with "Please enter the access key"

i was in my project, this morning, modifying a webform. Everything was awesome, until i tried to save it. now i am faced with the dreaded


I assume that means that I am going to have to reset my site settings, and thus will lose my changes. Correct?

I also get this message from time to time
Here’s my experience
It will be recovered with a qodly restart

I hope you find it helpful

I got this message again today

This time, when I clicked restart, it didn’t start automatically
It was offline
After that, I clicked start to start it

i can’t even get to the first screen without wiping site settings.