# Sync designs between Beta and "regular" apps?
**URL:** https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/sync-designs-between-beta-and-regular-apps/27770
**Category:** Modeling Questions
**Created:** [September 6, 2023, 2:38pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/sync-designs-between-beta-and-regular-apps/27770 "2023-09-06T14:38:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@keithchiasson](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/keithchiasson)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2023, 2:38pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/sync-designs-between-beta-and-regular-apps/27770/1 "2023-09-06T14:38:03Z")
Greetings. I’ve just installed the beta app on my mac, but when I opened the app, it didn’t bring up my designs. Any reason why?
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### Author:  [@Istvan](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Istvan)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2023, 2:39pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/sync-designs-between-beta-and-regular-apps/27770/2 "2023-09-06T14:39:04Z")
That’s because the beta is a separate app with a separate cloud backend. We don’t want to risk the beta messing with your data. You can export from the live app in .shapr format, and import it to the beta.
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### Author:  [@keithchiasson](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/keithchiasson)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2023, 5:11pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/sync-designs-between-beta-and-regular-apps/27770/3 "2023-09-06T17:11:08Z")
That makes perfect sense. I’ll do that. thanks for the help!
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### Author:  [@gex](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/gex)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2023, 11:36am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/sync-designs-between-beta-and-regular-apps/27770/4 "2023-09-07T11:36:03Z")
what will happen with the projects created in beta app? are you gonna migrate them to our accounts at the end? i tried to export a project i created in beta and import it in stable to make sure i won’t loose it but that’s not supported.
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### Author:  [@TheBum](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/TheBum)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2023, 5:21pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/sync-designs-between-beta-and-regular-apps/27770/5 "2023-09-07T17:21:43Z")
I’m guessing you’d need to export in x\_t format and import that into stable. The Shapr project file format is likely to be incompatible between beta and stable.
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### Author:  [@gex](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/gex)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2023, 5:51pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/sync-designs-between-beta-and-regular-apps/27770/6 "2023-09-08T17:51:48Z")
exporting in x\_t did the trick thank you! but i think my question is still relevant, what will happen with the projects created in the beta cloud? will we need to export them one by one?
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### Author:  [@gex](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/gex)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2023, 10:20pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/sync-designs-between-beta-and-regular-apps/27770/7 "2023-09-09T22:20:40Z")
well, it was too early to celebrate because only bodies can be exported with x\_t. i cannot migrate sketches only.
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### Author:  [@Istvan](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Istvan)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2023, 9:19am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/sync-designs-between-beta-and-regular-apps/27770/8 "2023-09-10T09:19:16Z")
> [@gex](#):
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> exporting in x\_t did the trick thank you! but i think my question is still relevant, what will happen with the projects created in the beta cloud? will we need to export them one by one?
The beta app will stay a separate app with a separate backend. We’ll try to maximize compatibility of the beta with the live app.