diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 6aa6fc7..d6b1547 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -4,5 +4,4 @@
 Images/TrainingImages/
 Model/bottleneck/
 Model/retrain_logs/
-Model/variables/
 Model/*.pb_log/
diff --git a/Logic/TrashRecognition/Retrain.py b/Logic/TrashRecognition/Retrain.py
index 53b9969..e891101 100644
--- a/Logic/TrashRecognition/Retrain.py
+++ b/Logic/TrashRecognition/Retrain.py
@@ -1334,7 +1334,7 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
   parser.add_argument(
       '--saved_model_dir',
       type=str,
-      default='',
+      default='Model',
       help='Where to save the exported graph.')
   parser.add_argument(
       '--logging_verbosity',
diff --git a/Model/variables/variables.data-00000-of-00001 b/Model/variables/variables.data-00000-of-00001
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diff --git a/Model/variables/variables.index b/Model/variables/variables.index
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