# \[IGN-13827\] Lingering bin files

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ign-13827-lingering-bin-files/109348>\
**Category:** Ignition 8.3 Early Access\
**Tags:** vision\
**Created:** [August 4, 2025, 7:25pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ign-13827-lingering-bin-files/109348 "2025-08-04T19:25:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![atay](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/atay/32/6232_2.png) [@atay](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/atay)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2025, 7:25pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ign-13827-lingering-bin-files/109348/1 "2025-08-04T19:25:48Z")

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Hello, IA team. I was checking out the new file tree and came across 2 bin files. Are the bin files here to stay or going away soon?

`/usr/local/bin/ignition/data/projects/NewProject/ignition/global-props/data.bin`

Another one in vision client tags, but vision is currently not a concern on my end.

In reference to this answer by @pturmel, I am excited that it is going away, but wanted to make sure 🙂 : [How to deal with .bin files while using git? - #2 by pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-deal-with-bin-files-while-using-git/100386/2)

Thanks for all that you do to make this product holistically git-friendly.

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**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2025, 8:22pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ign-13827-lingering-bin-files/109348/2 "2025-08-04T20:22:46Z")

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I think this one (global-props) gets serialized as JSON once you interact with and save it, rather than eagerly on upgrade. This is true in 8.1 as well.

Vision Client tags are just suffering from gross neglect.

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**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2025, 8:44pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ign-13827-lingering-bin-files/109348/3 "2025-08-04T20:44:37Z")

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The global props resource is still stored as binary in 8.3 (technically, it's gzipped XML, so in theory a smart enough git hook could possibly edit it?), but it's relatively high on the list of things to migrate to a human readable config. Possibly as soon as some early 8.3 release.

The big highlight feature of 8.3 is that all **gateway** configuration moved from the internal database to the filesystem, and (at least the vast majority of) that config is now stored in simple human/machine editable JSON. **Project** configuration is a lot more complex by nature and has to be tackled one resource type at a time; the only significant change for projects from 8.1 -\> 8.3 is in gateway/session/client events, which can be manually migrated in the designer into individual human readable files.

Vision client tags (and a couple of other Vision resource types) are also slated to be moved to a human readable format, eventually, but it's not a particularly high priority as we try to avoid changes to Vision that could introduce risk.

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**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2025, 8:45pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ign-13827-lingering-bin-files/109348/4 "2025-08-04T20:45:46Z")

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Oops, wrong about global-props 🙃