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# About Archiving

Archiving in Smoke provides an efficient way to save your media and project setups on external storage devices or in a filesystem. This frees up space for new projects. It is also a convenient way to store your projects offline in a fully restorable form, both long- and short-term.

Archive complete projects including project settings, configuration files, setups, and libraries (all the items that are stored in the project directory). In addition to archiving complete projects, you can archive clip libraries and individual elements of clip libraries.