Backups and Trash
QuilLab saves a snapshot of your project every ten minutes, keeps what you delete for 30 days, and lets you bring back the whole book or a single scene.
Everything in backups and Trash
| Feature | What it does | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Automatic snapshots | The whole project every ten minutes while you work, keeping only what changed. | Backups |
| Back up now | A snapshot on demand. Snapshots you take are pinned and kept for good. | Backups |
| How long they last | One a day for the last ten days you wrote, then one a month, then one a year. | Backups |
| Restore the project | Return everything to a snapshot. A safeguard copy is taken first, so it can be undone. | Timeline |
| Restore one item | Bring back one scene, note, or character, after comparing it with your current draft. | Items |
| Search old versions | Find an earlier version of a scene, character, or note by name. | Backups |
| Check backups | Confirm every stored piece can still be read. | Backups menu |
| Mirror folder | A second copy of every backup in a folder you choose, such as OneDrive or Dropbox. | Backups menu |
| Trash | Deleted scenes, books, notes, characters, and universes wait 30 days before they are removed. | Trash |
| Where it lives | On your computer. Nothing is uploaded unless you point the mirror folder at a synced folder. | App data |
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