Saving and Copying Projects

Projects are automatically saved to disk, so you never need to explicitly save a project. However, you can save a copy of the current project with a new name, in various ways, using the Save Project As Dialog Box.

There are also special facilities for backing up a project in the same location as the original (see Backing Up and Restoring Projects), and creating a checkpoint of a project inside the original project (see Checkpointing a Project).

 

To save a project with a new name and continue working in the original:

  1. In the Maestro main window, choose File → Save Project As.
  2. For Save as, choose Maestro project.
  3. Uncheck Open now.
  4. Use the file selection tools to choose a location and a name, and click Save.

 

To save a project with a new name and work in the new project:

  1. In the Maestro main window, choose File → Save Project As.
  2. For Save as, choose Maestro project.
  3. Check Open now.
  4. Use the file selection tools to choose a location and a name, and click Save.

 

To make a copy of part or all of a project:

  1. In the Maestro main window, choose File → Save Project As.
  2. For Save as, choose Maestro project (custom).
  3. Choose which entries to save from the Save entries option menu.
  4. Make any other choices of options.
  5. Use the file selection tools to choose a location and a name, and click Save.

 

To make a zipped archive of part or all of a project:

  1. In the Maestro main window, choose File → Save Project As.
  2. For Save as, choose Read-only archive project.
  3. Choose which entries to save from the Save entries option menu.
  4. Make any other choices of options.
  5. Use the file selection tools to choose a location and a name, and click Save.

 

You can also do the actions above from the Project Table. On Windows, you can choose to show the native file selector separately from the options—see File chooser dialogs (Windows only) options.

 

You can also copy a project outside of Maestro, because a project is just a directory (folder):

  • In a Linux shell, you can use the cp -r command to copy the project.
  • From a desktop environment you can use your file explorer to copy the project folder.

Make sure that the new location you give has a .prj extension, otherwise it will not be recognized by Maestro as a project.

 

NOTE: Not all project information is stored in the .prjzip file (job directories, for example, are not included). Therefore, other information may be needed in addition to the saved file when transferring data.