# Remove auto backup and pinegrow json

**URL:** <https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/remove-auto-backup-and-pinegrow-json/2067>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [July 18, 2018, 5:14am UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/remove-auto-backup-and-pinegrow-json/2067 "2018-07-18T05:14:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![kenji101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a9a28c/32.png) [@kenji101](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/kenji101)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2018, 5:14am UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/remove-auto-backup-and-pinegrow-json/2067/1 "2018-07-18T05:14:54Z")

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Hi,  
How to remove auto backup and pinegrow json

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**Author:** ![Rob](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.pinegrow.com/rob/32/9_2.png) [@Rob](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/Rob)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2018, 12:07pm UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/remove-auto-backup-and-pinegrow-json/2067/2 "2018-07-20T12:07:04Z")

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@kenji101 why do you want to remove them?

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**Author:** ![gzirfas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f6c823/32.png) [@gzirfas](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/gzirfas)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2018, 7:07pm UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/remove-auto-backup-and-pinegrow-json/2067/3 "2018-07-24T19:07:19Z")

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I remove these when I’m done in pinegrow and before I post to the live server. I don’t remember what the default was but in the past I was amassing a bunch of the backup files. I think I reset it to only keep three revisions. Deleting the backups and the json file does not cause any problems for me. the json file is a data file and keeps track of the files in the project. If its deleted it gets rebuilt if you open something as a project, the backups are stored in a folder (at least on mac) called \_pgbackup

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**Author:** ![Printninja](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.pinegrow.com/printninja/32/1181_2.png) [@Printninja](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/Printninja)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2018, 10:10pm UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/remove-auto-backup-and-pinegrow-json/2067/4 "2018-07-28T22:10:52Z")

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Top menu in Pinegrow \> Support \> Settings \> uncheck the box under Backups that says, “save backup files to…”