Backups

By default TiXL saves a backup of every user project every 3 minutes. Each backup is a zip archive of the project's source files (operators, settings, shaders, code, assets, thumbnails). Build output (bin/, obj/), exports (Export/), rendered videos (Render/), image sequences and screenshots are not included.

If nothing in a project has changed since the last backup, TiXL does not write a duplicate copy — it just refreshes the timestamp on the most recent zip.

Backup locations

In TiXL every user project has its own backup folder:

<your-project-folder>/.temp/Backup/

The .temp folder is excluded from git and is safe to delete at any time.

(Legacy: in Tooll3 all backups were kept in .t3/backup.)

How to restore a backup

Each zip archive is a complete copy of the project's source files. To restore one manually:

1. Close TiXL.
2. Open <your-project-folder>/.temp/Backup/ and pick the zip you want to restore (filenames carry an index and a timestamp, e.g. #00042-2026_04_26-15_30_22_123.zip).
3. Delete the project's bin/ and obj/ folders so stale build output does not clash with the restored sources.
4. Extract the zip directly into <your-project-folder>/, overwriting existing files.
5. Restart TiXL.

After a crash, TiXL also offers to restore the latest backup of every user project automatically on the next startup. The build artifact cleanup is done for you in that case.