Duplicate and recover projects

Cloning a project

Open the workspace panel (click the workspace name in the toolbar) and click Clone on a project card. You get an independent copy named ”… copy” in the same workspace, with:

• every conversation, actor, item, place, variable and custom field;
• every attached media file, copied so the two projects never share or invalidate each other’s assets;
• canvas layout, collapsed state and node colours.

The clone starts its own history — it does not inherit the original’s snapshots or reviewer notes’ resolution state as your history, though the notes themselves are part of the project data and come along.

Reasons to clone:

• A variation. Try the “the captain is the villain” version of Act 2 without touching the version the team is playing.
• A template. Keep a project with your studio’s actors, custom field templates and emphasis styles already set up, and clone it for each new scene.
• A safe copy before a big import. Importing a file over a project replaces it; clone first if you are not certain.

Cloning a single conversation inside a project is separate: open the conversation’s properties in Convos and click Duplicate.

Deleting — and getting it back

Trash on a project card moves the project to the workspace’s Trash. It disappears from the project list and from everyone’s editors, but nothing is destroyed.

Trash · recover deleted projects at the foot of the workspace panel lists what is there, with the date it was deleted. Each entry offers:

• Restore — the project returns to the list exactly as it was, history and media included.
• Delete permanently — gone for good, immediately.

Projects are retained in the Trash for 30 days, then purged automatically. Restoring and permanent deletion are admin actions.

What “recover” covers

You want back…	Use
A line you just changed	Ctrl+Z
A branch deleted an hour ago	History → Restore a snapshot
The version you sent to review last week	History → the snapshot you noted
A project someone deleted	Trash → Restore
A project as it was before an import replaced it	History → auto: session start from before the import