# HOW TO LOSE YOUR WORK: git project style
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-lose-your-work-git-project-style/85135
**Category:** General
**Created:** [1 February 2024 21:12 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-lose-your-work-git-project-style/85135 "2024-02-01T21:12:04Z")
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### Author:  [@jsprenkle](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/jsprenkle)
#### Post date: [1 February 2024 21:12 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-lose-your-work-git-project-style/85135/1 "2024-02-01T21:12:04Z")
If you use the new Git?project BEWARE! Make sure you have backups.
After all the repeated nagging by the UI I decided to create a project last night.
I created a project but quickly gave up because of the lack of documentation and non intuitive interface.
This afternoon I glanced at my home console to find it reset to the default ui-builder page.
Opening the node-red control panel confirms it has completely removed all my local files.
It didn't just overwrite the default files, it removed the svg's and images that I added.
Who thought it was a good idea that opening the control panel should do a silent deploy to production? I'm really struggling to avoid four letter words here.
How do I opt out of the node-red console auto updates?
This update was ill thought out and botched.
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### Author:  [@knolleary](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/knolleary)
#### Post date: [1 February 2024 22:27 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-lose-your-work-git-project-style/85135/2 "2024-02-01T22:27:49Z")
Hi @jsprenkle
The projects mode would only be enabled if you turned it on in your settings file.
If you disable it again and restart Node-RED, then it will go back to using the flows file in your `.node-red` directory which should be what you had before you tried creating the project
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### Author:  [@jsprenkle](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/jsprenkle)
#### Post date: [1 February 2024 23:06 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-lose-your-work-git-project-style/85135/3 "2024-02-01T23:06:43Z")
Thank you.
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### Author:  [@jsprenkle](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/jsprenkle)
#### Post date: [1 February 2024 23:19 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-lose-your-work-git-project-style/85135/4 "2024-02-01T23:19:16Z")
Instructions for reset:
Login to your node-red server.
For linux:
sudo vi /home/you/.node-red/settings.js
Search for:
```auto
projects: {
/** To enable the Projects feature, set this value to true */
enabled: false,
workflow: {
/** Set the default projects workflow mode.
* - manual - you must manually commit changes
* - auto - changes are automatically committed
* This can be overridden per-user from the 'Git config'
* section of 'User Settings' within the editor
*/
mode: "manual"
}
},
```
Change the "enabled" option and reboot
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [1 May 2024 23:19 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-lose-your-work-git-project-style/85135/5 "2024-05-01T23:19:29Z")
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