diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index e875bb4..a98a560 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 data/files/*
-!data/files
 __pycache__/
 ygg-crawler/node_modules/
 login.py
diff --git a/data/files/.gitkeep b/data/files/.gitkeep
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e69de29