diff --git a/.idea/artifacts/GDMS_war_exploded.xml b/.idea/artifacts/GDMS_war_exploded.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index d1033ca..0000000
--- a/.idea/artifacts/GDMS_war_exploded.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-<component name="ArtifactManager">
-  <artifact type="exploded-war" name="GDMS:war exploded">
-    <output-path>$PROJECT_DIR$/out/artifacts/GDMS_war_exploded</output-path>
-    <root id="root">
-      <element id="javaee-facet-resources" facet="GDMS/web/Web" />
-      <element id="directory" name="WEB-INF">
-        <element id="directory" name="classes">
-          <element id="module-output" name="GDMS" />
-          <element id="dir-copy" path="C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Tomcat 8.5" />
-        </element>
-        <element id="directory" name="lib">
-          <element id="library" level="project" name="lib" />
-          <element id="extracted-dir" path="C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Tomcat 8.5/lib/tomcat-jdbc.jar" path-in-jar="/" />
-          <element id="file-copy" path="C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Tomcat 8.5/lib/tomcat-jdbc.jar" />
-        </element>
-      </element>
-    </root>
-  </artifact>
-</component>
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diff --git a/.idea/encodings.xml b/.idea/encodings.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..15a15b2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.idea/encodings.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<project version="4">
+  <component name="Encoding" addBOMForNewFiles="with NO BOM" />
+</project>
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