# I'm lost in my folder structure...oops
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/im-lost-in-my-folder-structure-oops/97688
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [September 20, 2018, 7:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/im-lost-in-my-folder-structure-oops/97688 "2018-09-20T19:36:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@Json\_Blob](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Json_Blob)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2018, 7:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/im-lost-in-my-folder-structure-oops/97688/1 "2018-09-20T19:36:30Z")
Hey there, embarrassing moment but I seem to have gotten lost in my file structure as everything looks different suddenly and I’m not sure what changed. Connecting in to the console on DigitalOcean I am dropped into what i thought was the default location where discourse was alongside “launcher” and all that, but doing a `dir` I get a set of files I’m not familiar with. I thought maybe backing out to /var/ would give me a /var/discourse, but I don’t have that. So I’m at a total loss where everything has moved to. I’m not sure how to communicate to you what I’m seeing…
shouldn’t the [standard install](https://meta.discourse.org/t/142537?silent=true) location be /var/discourse? And there I should be able to do ./launcher commands? Where should I be?
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### Author:  [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2018, 7:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/im-lost-in-my-folder-structure-oops/97688/2 "2018-09-20T19:39:06Z")
It looks like you could be inside the docker container. Try running `exit`, and you should end up back on the host machine.
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### Author:  [@Json\_Blob](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Json_Blob)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2018, 7:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/im-lost-in-my-folder-structure-oops/97688/3 "2018-09-20T19:39:45Z")
Holy butts, you sir are a wizard. That was it, thank you. I am not sure how I ended up in that state.
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### Author:  [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2018, 7:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/im-lost-in-my-folder-structure-oops/97688/4 "2018-09-20T19:44:18Z")
> [@Json\_Blob](#):
>
> I am not sure how I ended up in that state.
The most likely way is if you ran
```plaintext
./launcher enter app
```
There are some situations where it is useful, but it can certainly be confusing if you aren’t expecting it! 😉
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### Author:  [@Json\_Blob](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Json_Blob)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2018, 7:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/im-lost-in-my-folder-structure-oops/97688/5 "2018-09-20T19:47:19Z")
that certainly sounds like something I might have accidentally done at one point. I was on a quest to just reboot my discourse instance so was trying to do a `./launcher stop app` and `./launcher start app` to achieve that
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2018, 7:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/im-lost-in-my-folder-structure-oops/97688/6 "2018-09-20T19:48:56Z")
Random tidbit of advice: `./launcher restart app` will let you do that in one command.
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### Author:  [@Json\_Blob](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Json_Blob)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2018, 7:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/im-lost-in-my-folder-structure-oops/97688/7 "2018-09-20T19:54:27Z")
I found some half-related thread somewhere and the user said it didn’t work, so I went for the 2-step method but I will note that for next time and try it myself. It was likely old info, I didn’t note the timestamps on that post.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2018, 10:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/im-lost-in-my-folder-structure-oops/97688/8 "2018-09-20T22:55:58Z")
Are you related to.. George?
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A66ierfTCUQ)
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### Author:  [@Json\_Blob](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Json_Blob)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2018, 6:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/im-lost-in-my-folder-structure-oops/97688/9 "2018-09-21T06:37:22Z")
The real kicker here is the actor’s name is Jason Alexander, character George Costanza, so you can Frankenstein me together into `Jason Alexander George Costanza` which a guy in high school used to call me every time he said my name
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2018, 9:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/im-lost-in-my-folder-structure-oops/97688/10 "2018-09-21T21:39:17Z")
That is legitimately hilarious 🤣
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2018, 9:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/im-lost-in-my-folder-structure-oops/97688/11 "2018-10-21T21:52:28Z")
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