How to clear UIDs from Godot's editor cache? | Godot Café | Page 1

fierce hedge Jan 15, 2026, 9:22 PM

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I have tried:

In GDScript: ResourceUID.remove_id(int_uid)
Deleting: .godot/uid_cache.bin
Deleting: .godot/editor/filesystem*

Despite all of these, stale UIDs are still used in the editor, while new UIDs (created with ResourceUID.create_id() and ResourceUID.add_id(int_uid, path)) are all ignored. .godot/uid_cache.bin is almost immediately regenerated with stale data, too.

I'm trying to make a plugin to help users fix UID issues, but there's nothing that I can do short of nuking all of .godot/ to get new UIDs to be read by the editor.

Does anyone have a suggestion of what I should do?

mighty shore Jan 15, 2026, 10:36 PM

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fierce hedge I have tried: - In GDScript: `ResourceUID.remove_id(int_uid)` - Deleting: `.godo...

that kinda sounds like something worthy of a bug report i would say.

fierce hedge Jan 15, 2026, 10:37 PM

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Yeah, I thought so. I'm making the minimal reproduction project now.

fierce hedge Jan 15, 2026, 11:09 PM

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Uh, now deleting filesystem* has started working to reset the cache. Still, that's more than users should have to do.

#How to clear UIDs from Godot's editor cache?