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Back up your guides and move to a new computer
Automatic backups, restoring a whole library or single guides, and moving your guides when you change PC.
- Plan
- Free
- Reading time
- 2 min read
- Checked against Thoth for Windows on
- October 23, 2026
Your library is on your PC, so a backup is what protects it from a lost laptop or a dead disk. Thoth makes them for you.
Automatic backups#
Open Settings → Backups. Back up automatically is on by default and runs while Thoth is open: by default once a day, keeping the newest 10. Change How often and Keep, or use Change… next to Backup folder to send them to a drive or a network share (Use default goes back). Back up now makes one on demand. Backups you make yourself stay until you delete them; only the automatic ones are rotated.
Each backup is a ZIP of the whole library: a copy of the database and every guide’s screenshots.
Restore#
- Restore guides… on a backup in the list opens it and lets you pick guides to bring back. Nothing else changes.
- Restore everything… replaces the library. It runs when Thoth next starts, and your current data is kept beside it in
data-before-restore. - Open a backup file… reads a backup from anywhere, such as a copy on another PC.
Move to a new computer#
- 1
Make a backup
On the old PC, choose Back up now and copy the ZIP somewhere you can reach from the new one.
- 2
Install Thoth on the new PC
See Install Thoth.
- 3
Bring the guides over
On the new PC open Settings → Backups → Open a backup file… and restore everything, or pick the guides you want.
- 4
Turn on Pro
Sign in with your Thoth account, or paste your key. Then free the old computer under Your computers on the Billing & license page. See Licenses and computers.
Send a few guides to someone#
Tick guides in the library and choose Share as file to save them as .thoth files. The other person chooses Import → Guide files in their library. Import recognizes a guide it has seen before, so importing again doesn’t duplicate it.
Cloud backup and sync
Pro also lets Thoth keep encrypted copies of your library in Thoth Cloud and sync chosen guides between computers. The privacy page describes how it is encrypted.