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Back up and restore

Poof! keeps your work in its workspace folder (see Settings and privacy). Your original photos are separate: back them up the way you always do. Poof!'s backups never include your original photo files.

Quick backup of your item records

Open Folder & settings and press Back up item database. Poof! saves a copy of its database in the workspace's backups folder and tells you the file's location.

This copy holds your items, details, listings, photo choices, sales and history. It does not hold image files, such as:

  • your edited photo versions and collages;
  • copies of photos you chose with Import & organize or New listing;
  • item working folders;
  • photos downloaded from your marketplace listings;
  • AI-made images and shipping labels.

Poof! also saves a database backup by itself before it upgrades its database to a new version.

Full backup

To keep everything, including edited photos:

  1. Quit Poof! (the ✨ icon in the menu bar, then Quit Poof!).
  2. Copy the whole workspace folder to your backup drive.
  3. Start Poof! again.

Copy it while Poof! is stopped, so the copy is consistent.

Restore

  1. Quit Poof!.
  2. Keep your current workspace folder as it is, as a safety copy. Don't overwrite it.
  3. Make a new, empty folder for the restored workspace, outside your photo folders.
  4. Either copy a full backup of the workspace into it, or copy a database backup file into it and rename that file poof.sqlite3.

  5. Start Poof! with that folder as its workspace, by setting POOF_WORKSPACE before the start command:

    POOF_WORKSPACE="/path/to/restored-workspace" backend/.venv/bin/python -m uvicorn app.main:app --app-dir backend --host 127.0.0.1 --port 8000

  6. Check your photo folder is still connected, and scan it again so Poof! remakes its previews.

If you restored only the database, edited photos and other image files from the old workspace are not there; copy those folders across too if you still have them.