# No flow backup in .node-red folder

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/no-flow-backup-in-node-red-folder/93433>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [25 November 2024 08:49 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/no-flow-backup-in-node-red-folder/93433 "2024-11-25T08:49:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![cymplecy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/cymplecy/32/2773_2.png) [@cymplecy](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/cymplecy)\
**Post date:** [25 November 2024 08:49 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/no-flow-backup-in-node-red-folder/93433/1 "2024-11-25T08:49:56Z")

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I had a problem so I thought I'll go and restore the flows.json backup file but nothing there

```auto
simon@simon-HP-Desktop-M01-F1xxx:~/.node-red$ ls -l
total 4512
-rwxr-xr-x 1 simon simon 6746 Sep 12 2023 alexaFile.txt
drwxr-xr-x 11 simon simon 4096 Nov 20 15:02 context
-rw-rw-r-- 1 simon simon 755 Nov 23 12:04 flows_cred.json
-rw-rw-r-- 1 simon simon 2449113 Nov 25 08:32 flows.json
-rw-rw-r-- 1 simon simon 1549106 Nov 20 16:28 flows.oldjson
drwxr-xr-x 3 simon simon 4096 Jan 28 2022 lib
-rwxr-xr-x 1 simon simon 109222 Dec 2 2022 multicam.png
drwxr-xr-x 558 simon simon 20480 Nov 24 21:34 node_modules
drwxr-xr-x 4 simon simon 4096 Aug 30 2023 node-red-matter
-rwxr-xr-x 1 simon simon 2061 Nov 24 21:34 package.json
-rwxr-xr-x 1 simon simon 402818 Nov 24 21:34 package-lock.json
-rwxr-xr-x 1 simon simon 20502 Sep 10 2023 settings1881.js
-rwxr-xr-x 1 simon simon 20488 Dec 20 2023 settings.js
drwxr-xr-x 2 simon simon 4096 Aug 30 2023 storage-9999d6bdbd001279

```

I'm not dreaming am I?  
NR used to keep a backup of the flows.json and the credentials file didn't it???

_The flows.oldjson was done manually by me a few days ago_

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**Author:** ![dceejay](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/dceejay/32/38_2.png) [@dceejay](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/dceejay)\
**Post date:** [25 November 2024 08:54 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/no-flow-backup-in-node-red-folder/93433/2 "2024-11-25T08:54:18Z")

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Yes - they are hidden files - try `ls -la` to list all files...

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**Author:** ![cymplecy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/cymplecy/32/2773_2.png) [@cymplecy](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/cymplecy)\
**Post date:** [25 November 2024 08:56 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/no-flow-backup-in-node-red-folder/93433/3 "2024-11-25T08:56:14Z")

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Phew 🙂

In previous times, I must have used my GUI file manager (which I always set to show hidden files) 🙂

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/3X/1/e/1e07db54e02d4eb9ef760952fea02424647c0b18.png)

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/1X/d073cd938eafa2e558d7c2cd59003b3ef4963033.png) [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [9 December 2024 08:56 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/no-flow-backup-in-node-red-folder/93433/4 "2024-12-09T08:56:40Z")

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