Setting working directory

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Hello, please I am confused about the message that recently began to pop up in my console every time I set my working directory in R Studio. The message is printed below:

Warning message:
Auto-saved .RData file detected. Remove it to enhance reproducibility.

I get this message whenever I set my working directory after starting up R Studio. I found a .RData file in my working directory folder, which I have deleted, but the message keeps popping up. And I also noticed that a script I had run in the past has stopped running. I can't even load the libraries in that script again. All of this recently started. Please as always, I will be grateful for any helpful suggestion on what could be going on. Thanks.

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You have "auto save" enabled so in each session your environment gets saved and you get that warning message just because it's considered a bad practice but it is only a warning not an error message.

By the way, manually setting your working directory is also considered a bad practice, when working with RStudio is much better to work with proper Projects and with the here package for non-interactive scripts.

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