# Perspective 8.1: Views have been changed into folders

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-8-1-views-have-been-changed-into-folders/41017>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition80\
**Created:** [November 27, 2020, 4:12pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-8-1-views-have-been-changed-into-folders/41017 "2020-11-27T16:12:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![vinh.nguyen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e274bd/32.png) [@vinh.nguyen](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/vinh.nguyen)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2020, 4:12pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-8-1-views-have-been-changed-into-folders/41017/1 "2020-11-27T16:12:03Z")

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My views I have worked on have turned into folders, there was a couple threads back with this same issue but there was no real solution aside from it being mentioned to be patched out. Is there a way to get them back into their view form. The project folder still has the views with their respective json files and thumbnail.

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**Author:** ![vinh.nguyen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e274bd/32.png) [@vinh.nguyen](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/vinh.nguyen)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2020, 5:48pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-8-1-views-have-been-changed-into-folders/41017/2 "2020-11-27T17:48:05Z")

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Additional error logs for the problem,

This error occurred after I switched branches on my github of my project. I switched to main branch to check a few things then switched back to this current branch. I did some more research and found it could be a problem with resource.json files, I did take a look into them and saw they had many extra lines which I deleted but still nothing. Im starting to think it is a change somewhere else in the project folder or with the gateway.

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**Author:** ![vinh.nguyen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e274bd/32.png) [@vinh.nguyen](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/vinh.nguyen)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2020, 2:09pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-8-1-views-have-been-changed-into-folders/41017/3 "2020-11-30T14:09:25Z")

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I have managed to restore my views, I ended up deleting my whole project folder and restoring only my projects while letting ignition generate a .resource folder. I then went into the project and created empty views of the same name and then replacing the json files with the original files. I also edited the json files because GitHub added some extra text that should not belong there, updated the project and most of the content was back.

Moving forward I think no omitting the .resource folder in the gitnore might have caused it, not 100 percent sure but I will be making more frequent backups now.