SharePoint 2010 Designer Lists and Libraries View Returns an Empty View

This can happen if you restore a site from a SharePoint farm where a feature dependent list was created and this feature is not installed in the farm where the site is being restored. Please note that sometimes solutions such as U2U CAML Query Builder can create lists during feature activation. Once you have identified and removed the orphaned list, this issue should resolve. If you don’t have access to SharePoint Management Shell, you can delete the orphaned list in SharePoint Designer by selecting All Files –> Lists.