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As time goes by, you probably will create a lot of jobs in your default Storage Location that you don't need to see regularly, but you don't want to delate, either. Using PlanSwift Storages, you can easily create an Archived Jobs folder and move jobs to it to clean up your default Storage Location (and the Open Jobs dialog box).

Archiving Jobs Within PlanSwift

Create Data Storage

  • First, create a new data storage named "Archived Jobs".

PlanSwift Creating a new Data Storage location for archived jobs

We recommend creating this Data Storage someplace other than your local hard drive. You can create it on a network drive or in the Cloud (for example: OneDrive, Google Drive, etc. - as a reminder, we do not provide technical support for any 3rd party applications/solutions). You can even use an external hard drive or USB thumb drive to create the backup Storage location, just be sure it is always available/plugged in when you are running PlanSwift.

When you set up a Storage Location on a network, others may have access to that location. It is imperative that you do not attempt to open the same job file at the same time, this will cause the job file to become corrupt and unusable. Also, if other users have access to this location, they could delete your archived jobs, just be aware of who has access to your network location.

For more information on creating a Network Data Store, see Related Articles.

Move Jobs to Archived Jobs Storage

After you set up your backup Storage Location,

  • Click the Home tab
  • Then click Open on the ribbon bar
  • Locate and select the job you want to backup
  • Click the Move To button and select your "Archived Jobs" Storage Location from the list

PlanSwift Open Job dialog box showing moving a job to Archived Jobs storage location

You'll see a screen similar to this for a few moments:

PlanSwift moving a job to a different data storage progress indicator

And then that job will no longer appear in your default "Local" Open Job list:

PlanSwift Open Job dialog box showing the job moved out of Local storage

If you ever need to access that job again,

  • Click on the "Archived Jobs" Storage Location in the Open Job dialog box

PlanSwift Open Job dialog box showing switching to Archived Jobs storage location

  • Locate the archived Job you want to work on and follow the steps above to move it back to your working Data Storage.

We recommend against working directly on Jobs stored in your Archived Jobs Storage Location.

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