# Ignition touching project files every five minutes on Windows **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Tags:** ignition81\ **Created:** [October 20, 2022, 8:23pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-touching-project-files-every-five-minutes-on-windows/65488 "2022-10-20T20:23:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 5
**Author:** ![justin.brzozoski](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/justin.brzozoski/32/13452_2.png) [@justin.brzozoski](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/justin.brzozoski)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2022, 9:02pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-touching-project-files-every-five-minutes-on-windows/65488/5 "2022-10-20T21:02:40Z")
> [@cesrom](#): > > I guess I could add `resource.json` to `.gitignore` and get rid of this issue. But still, what is Ignition running every five minutes? IA staff have explicitly called out ignoring `resource.json` as a bad practice: > [@Best Practices for SVN/GIT on projects](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/best-practices-for-svn-git-on-projects/30218/11): > > No, we have no intention of doing this. A resource is comprised of everything inside the resource directory. You should ignore nothing. We are, however, likely going to stop writing back an “externally modified” entry to the resource upon scanning it and noticing the signature is incorrect. We’ll just let it be wrong in the file and the in-memory / UI representation will still indicate there is a mismatch when necessary. Did you read through this: > [@Getting resource.json files under control in Git](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/getting-resource-json-files-under-control-in-git/49571): > > Ok, so I’ve been wrestling with Git and constant changes to resource.json files detected by Git, as I hear others have. This is probably isn’t an issue at all in Linux or Mac environments, but those of us confined to Windows feel the pain. So, the reason you keep seeing resource.json files that git wants you to commit is because they get updated by Ignition whenever it sees a change in a source file (python code.py files, etc). But, my file hasn’t changed since I pulled the code.py and resour… --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-touching-project-files-every-five-minutes-on-windows/65488)._