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Project Recovery

Restore an autosaved project after a crash or unclean exit. Appears on launch when recovery files are present.

If the app crashed or you killed it with unsaved work, Beam Bench can recover the project from the autosave file on next launch.

When it opens

Automatically on app startup if one or more autosaved projects are detected.

What you see

  • Brief intro text explaining what recovery is.
  • A list of recoverable projects, each showing:
    • Project name (truncated if long).
    • Original path.
    • Per-row buttons.

Per-row buttons

ButtonAction
RestoreOpen this project from its autosave.
DiscardDelete this single recovery file.
  • Discard All: delete every recovery file shown.
  • Close: dismiss without acting. Files remain. Next launch shows the dialog again.

Notes

  • Escape closes the dialog.
  • Clicking outside the dialog closes it.
  • Restore loads the project but does not auto-save it. Save explicitly to commit the recovered state.
  • Autosave files live in the app preferences directory:
    • macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Beam Bench/
    • Windows: %AppData%\Beam Bench\
    • Linux: ~/.config/Beam Bench/

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