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# Data Recovery
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When Aseprite is running, it saves some temporary data to restore your
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sprite in case that your computer (or Aseprite itself) crashes.
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This temporary data is saved in a subfolder named `sessions` inside your
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sprite in case that your computer (or Aseprite) crashes, or you close
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Aseprite without saving your sprites. (Even if you save your sprites,
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the original backup is kept in your disk at least for a couple of
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weeks.)
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## Open Sprites from Previous Sessions
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To restore a sprite from a previous sessions you have to use the
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"Recover Files" option in the "Home" tab:
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<p><img src="/docs/data-recovery/home-tab.png" alt="Home tab" class="x2" /></p>
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If Aseprite crashes (wasn't closed correctly) and some sprite wasn't
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saved, you will see the "Recover Files" option as a button:
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<p><img src="/docs/data-recovery/home-tab-after-crash.png" alt="Home tab" class="x2" /></p>
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This option opens the "Recover Files" tab, where you can double-click
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an item (or select it and press "Recover Sprite") to recover a sprite
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from a previous sessions:
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<p><img src="/docs/data-recovery/recover-files-tab.png" alt="Home tab" class="x2" /></p>
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## Preferences
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In the *Edit > Preferences > Files* section you can configure how the
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backup data is saved and for how long:
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![Data Recovery Preferences](data-recovery/recover-data-preferences.png)
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* *Automatically save recovery data every X seconds/minutes*:
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Indicates that Aseprite should auto-save backup data (on disk) every
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X seconds or minutes for each edited sprite (2 minutes by default).
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* *Keep edited sprite data for Y days/weeks/months*: For each sprite
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that was edited, Aseprite will keep the backup data (on disk) for
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the given number of days/weeks/months (1 week by default).
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* *Keep closed sprite on memory for Z seconds/minutes/hours*: If you
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close a sprite by mistake, Aseprite will keep the sprite (on memory,
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with the undo information) for at least the given time (15 minutes
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by default). You can re-open a closed file
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with *File > Open Recent > Reopen Closed File* menu
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option (Ctrl+Shift+T or ⇧⌘T keyboard shortcut).
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## Internals
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The backup data is saved in a subfolder named `sessions` inside your
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[Preferences Folder](preferences-folder.md):
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> ![Sessions Folder](data-recovery/sessions-folder-focused.png)
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![Sessions Folder](data-recovery/sessions-folder-focused.png)
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In `sessions` might be several subfolders:
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`sessions` might contain several subfolders (one for each execution of Aseprite):
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> ![Inside Sessions Folder](data-recovery/in-sessions-folder.png)
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![Inside Sessions Folder](data-recovery/in-sessions-folder.png)
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The name of these folders (e.g. `20180405-165510-1128`) has a meaning,
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which is `YYYYMMDD-HHMMSS-PID`:
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handling that session folder.
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Each of these folders contain useful data to restore some sprites that
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you might have lost in the crash. When you start Aseprite again, you
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may see this button to recover those sprites:
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> ![Recover Lost Sprites Button](data-recovery/recover-lost-sprites-button.png)
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you might have lost in the crash.
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If you don't see the *"Recover Lost Sprites"* button when you launch
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Aseprite, but you have one of these `sessions/YYYYMMDD-HHMMSS-PID`
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folder in your [Preferences Folder](preferences-folder.md), you can
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compress one of those folder in a `.zip` and send it to
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If you aren't able to recover your sessions using the "Recover Files"
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option from "Home" tab, but you have one of these
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`sessions/YYYYMMDD-HHMMSS-PID` folder in your [Preferences Folder](preferences-folder.md),
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you can compress one of those folder in a `.zip` and send it to
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try to recover your data.
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