Is there a way to backup all the drawings at one go or is it only one by one?
Hi,
If you turn Sync on, all designs will be backed up once the process finishes.
Ok, just when turning on sync it says to back up everything first before trying haha
Oh, you mean export everything. Unfortunately there is no quick way to do it at the moment. If on iPad, you can create an iCloud backup, and restore everything from there if anything happens.
I just wanted to revisit this thread.
I’m wondering if there is a solution to this yet. I’d really like to backup all files in one go. It makes me nervous as my business relies heavily on my Shapr3D files. If I lost them, I’d be in trouble. Also, if I accidentally delete a file, I’ll likely have a previous backup that I can still grab. I understand that I can export one file at a time, but this isn’t really a solution when I have lots of files and I’m also making frequent changes to them. And there is no way that I’d remember to export every file that I work with literally every time that I finish working on it, make a small edit, etc.
I saw this video, and it works. But I’d really like to have a user-friendly way that I can just copy everything all at once and move it to an external hard drive, to my NAS, anywhere separate from my iPad and Mac for safe keeping.
This is in the top three reasons that I’ll let my subscription lapse. It’s unreal that there isn’t a way to just backup everything.
Good morning,
I just read all the answers but I still don’t understand where my projects are physically saved.
on a cloud, on my hard drive?
Thank you for your future explanations.
I too would like clarification on if they are also stored locally or not. In fact I would like to see an option for where we would like them saved. Locally or cloud.
We have so many files now I am growing more and more paranoid about backing it up locally. It would take me hours to back but all we have individually.
Both. Your designs are stored locally, and backed up and synced across your devices in the cloud.
Good to hear, but where locally on a Windows PC ?
HI,
Yes designs are stored locally but I don’t know the exact way because I work on mac. it’s probably in the documentation.
For my part, I make my own copies of projects.
1• Open Shapr 3d
2• On the opening page, you have all your projects already saved in local and in the cloud.
3• Right-click on a project opens a context menu. You can now export to . shapr at the location you want
Thank you for the response. I am aware that you can right click and save the drawing. But with so many that would take to long.
I found that the software seems to be located in C:\Program Files\WindowsApps
Yet when I try to open that hidden folder, it wont let me access it, saying I don’t have permission. So I cannot dig any further to know for sure these files are stored locally.
The user files are stored somewhere in the user’s home directory (I don’t have a Windows PC so I don’t know where). The app location is immaterial.
“The app location is immaterial.” Not true. It could store the files there.
In any event. There are no folders in the user’s home directory for this. Quite a few people have said it stores the files locally but they are say I dont have a PC. So my question is if they dont have a PC how do they know its stored locally when they can’t confirm that?.
Applications rarely store files in the program directory, and unless they let the user define a storage path, they will be put in the User directory. Anyway, on Windows, navigate to your user account and look for something like this:
C:Users\\AppData\Local\Packages\Shapr3D.Shapr3D_\LocalState
There is a db file there, but I have no idea where if you made a copy of the whole folder if it could be used as a backup, especially if shapr updated in the meantime.
FWIW, I copied them out. Deleted the drawings in Sharper. Closed it, and copied them back. Restarted Shapr3d and it was still empty.
Thank you all for the time and help. I’ll just right click on all my drawings and save that way.
Yes, it could but it would be hostile to a multiple user environment, i.e. each user would have the same set of projects.
Cloud control to major tom