diff --git a/downloads/.gitignore b/downloads/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..5e7d2734
--- /dev/null
+++ b/downloads/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+# Ignore everything in this directory
+*
+# Except this file
+!.gitignore
diff --git a/downloads/data.txt b/downloads/data.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 033229c4..00000000
--- a/downloads/data.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-This folder contains downloaded data from Aria2c 
-which is mapped to both Bassa API container and Aria2c RPC server
\ No newline at end of file