# .Dotfile protection setting gone?

**URL:** <https://forum.cursor.com/t/dotfile-protection-setting-gone/152782>\
**Category:** Help\
**Tags:** auto-run, early-access\
**Created:** [February 24, 2026, 9:16am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/dotfile-protection-setting-gone/152782 "2026-02-24T09:16:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![condor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/condor/32/73148_2.png) [@condor](https://forum.cursor.com/u/condor)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2026, 3:42pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/dotfile-protection-setting-gone/152782/6 "2026-02-26T15:42:45Z")

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hi @woutersteven while the setting has been removed we still have dotfile protection but it can not be disabled.

As Chris also mentioned you can still use .gitignore, .cursorignore (agent) and .cursorindexingignore (index) for fine tuning what each part should be allow to access or not.

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