# All my nodes and flows gone

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/all-my-nodes-and-flows-gone/1256>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [3 July 2018 06:37 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/all-my-nodes-and-flows-gone/1256 "2018-07-03T06:37:00Z")\
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**Post date:** [28 January 2020 09:40 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/all-my-nodes-and-flows-gone/1256/18 "2020-01-28T09:40:08Z")

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> [@dceejay](#):
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> If we do change it - it needs to be in a way that doesn't break all existing users...

That can be achieved by just changing the settings.js template that gets copied over to _new_ workspaces, no code changes required. Just uncomment `flowFile: 'flows.json'` by default.

That will take effect only for new workspaces, and keep the existing ones untouched, as the settings.js is already there (and possibly customized).

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