# Node-red won't start

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**Created:** [5 October 2020 10:02 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-wont-start/33762 "2020-10-05T10:02:38Z")\
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> [@Colin](#):
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> not actually necessary to do the flow.set at all after modifying properties

For variables in memory perhaps but I don't think that is true of file system variables is it?

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