# Resources Turning as Folders

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/resources-turning-as-folders/116985>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [September 3, 2026, 4:26pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/resources-turning-as-folders/116985 "2026-09-03T16:26:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 9\
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**Author:** ![Rohit\_Mehar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/rohit_mehar/32/55621_2.png) [@Rohit\_Mehar](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Rohit_Mehar)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2026, 4:26pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/resources-turning-as-folders/116985/1 "2026-09-03T16:26:54Z")

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Hello Everyone,

I am facing a very confusing issue. I am working on Version 8.1.48 and observing that my views and turning as folder. I have attached two screenshots. "AddWorkCenter/Popups/AddWorkcenterPopup". This also happened with my Scripting. scripting turns into Scripting package.

 ![View](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/3/1/31f041206180054ba57b7396bd3838f3d8ba4817.png)

 ![Folder](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/3/c/3cc52b7956371afa5ead1c2999dd2e8252ddf60e.png)

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**Author:** ![vtran](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/779978/32.png) [@vtran](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/vtran)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2026, 5:01pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/resources-turning-as-folders/116985/2 "2026-09-03T17:01:11Z")

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I think that usually happens when the `resource.json` file is missing or corrupted. might want to take a look at it.

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**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2026, 5:06pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/resources-turning-as-folders/116985/3 "2026-09-03T17:06:04Z")

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Look for errors in your gateway log for about the time you last saved those views.

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**Author:** ![Rohit\_Mehar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/rohit_mehar/32/55621_2.png) [@Rohit\_Mehar](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Rohit_Mehar)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2026, 5:40pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/resources-turning-as-folders/116985/4 "2026-09-03T17:40:14Z")

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I am not sure when it was last saved. But I found this gateway logs. I was able to recover it from backup.

 ![Errors](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/0/d/0dd7cbd2f446e0cf76530e997213e47c9288a92b.png)

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**Author:** ![Rohit\_Mehar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/rohit_mehar/32/55621_2.png) [@Rohit\_Mehar](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Rohit_Mehar)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2026, 5:47pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/resources-turning-as-folders/116985/5 "2026-09-03T17:47:22Z")

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here is the screenshot. resource folder is found empty

 ![resource](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/e/a/ea29e08efcf020c6f42bea4a169543fd49bbfa16.png)

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**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2026, 5:50pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/resources-turning-as-folders/116985/6 "2026-09-03T17:50:26Z")

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Your screenshot is unreadable. Please extraction the actual, complete text from the `wrapper.log` file. (And post here as preformatted text, not as a quote.)

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**Author:** ![vtran](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/779978/32.png) [@vtran](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/vtran)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2026, 6:38pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/resources-turning-as-folders/116985/7 "2026-09-03T18:38:46Z")

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each resource has their own resource.json file, you'll need to go into something like

```python
projects/<project-name>/com.inductiveautomation.perspective/views/AddWorkCenter/Popups/AddWorkcenterPopup

```

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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:** [September 3, 2026, 6:49pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/resources-turning-as-folders/116985/8 "2026-09-03T18:49:30Z")

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I can just barely make out "Unable to create resource `<path to resource>`".

The most likely culprit is something about your filesystem that the gateway isn't able to push changes to.

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**Author:** ![Cose\_Peter1](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/cose_peter1/32/79174_2.png) [@Cose\_Peter1](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Cose_Peter1)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2026, 11:52am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/resources-turning-as-folders/116985/9 "2026-09-04T11:52:20Z")

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I often see this when merge confilcts are not resolved correctly when using Git.