diff --git a/backend/src/main/java/edu/internet2/tier/shibboleth/admin/ui/domain/resolvers/opensaml/OpenSamlFilesystemMetadataResolver.java b/backend/src/main/java/edu/internet2/tier/shibboleth/admin/ui/domain/resolvers/opensaml/OpenSamlFilesystemMetadataResolver.java
index b4fb6d578..f375bc940 100644
--- a/backend/src/main/java/edu/internet2/tier/shibboleth/admin/ui/domain/resolvers/opensaml/OpenSamlFilesystemMetadataResolver.java
+++ b/backend/src/main/java/edu/internet2/tier/shibboleth/admin/ui/domain/resolvers/opensaml/OpenSamlFilesystemMetadataResolver.java
@@ -51,11 +51,12 @@ public DateTime getLastRefresh() {
 
     @Override
     protected void initMetadataResolver() throws ComponentInitializationException {
-        super.initMetadataResolver();
+        //TODO determine whether we should actually be doing anything here
+        /*super.initMetadataResolver();
 
         delegate.addIndexedDescriptorsFromBackingStore(this.getBackingStore(),
                                                        this.sourceResolver.getResourceId(),
-                                                       indexWriter);
+                                                       indexWriter);*/
     }
 
     /**
diff --git a/backend/src/main/java/edu/internet2/tier/shibboleth/admin/ui/service/MetadataResolverConverterServiceImpl.java b/backend/src/main/java/edu/internet2/tier/shibboleth/admin/ui/service/MetadataResolverConverterServiceImpl.java
index 1ddcbb9a4..ed7a5f657 100644
--- a/backend/src/main/java/edu/internet2/tier/shibboleth/admin/ui/service/MetadataResolverConverterServiceImpl.java
+++ b/backend/src/main/java/edu/internet2/tier/shibboleth/admin/ui/service/MetadataResolverConverterServiceImpl.java
@@ -61,9 +61,7 @@ private OpenSamlFileBackedHTTPMetadataResolver convertToOpenSamlRepresentation(F
 
     private OpenSamlFilesystemMetadataResolver convertToOpenSamlRepresentation(FilesystemMetadataResolver resolver) throws IOException, ResolverException, ComponentInitializationException {
         IndexWriter indexWriter = indexWriterService.getIndexWriter(resolver.getResourceId());
-        URL url = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().getResource(placeholderResolverService()
-                .resolveValueFromPossibleTokenPlaceholder(resolver.getMetadataFile()));
-        File metadataFile = new File(url.getPath());
+        File metadataFile = new File(resolver.getMetadataFile());
 
         OpenSamlFilesystemMetadataResolver openSamlResolver = new OpenSamlFilesystemMetadataResolver(openSamlObjects.getParserPool(),
                                                       indexWriter,