# Tips and tricks

## I need to move my projects to another drive

In case the current folder where the projects are stored in does not suit you, do the following steps:

1. Close the program

2. Move the content of the current folder with the existing projects into another location.

3. Next time you create a new project using the New project (dialog), change the location for the new project.

The is no special configuration option that needs to be adjusted to change the location of your project files.

## How to back up a project

No special action is necessary to make a copy of a project; copy a project file, a directory with the “-files” suffix and all files that resides in it.

Restoring is also easy; just copy the files and directories to a folder and make sure that you have the ‘read-write’ access to the project file, the directory with “-files” suffix and also to all files that resides in it. When you open a project from a read-only location, e.g. DVD, the program detects the situation and gives a warning; you can open a project in ‘read-only’ mode; in this mode, it is allowed to make outputs, e.g. light curve, but operations that would change the data are not allowed.