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Using File Sync

What is stored where

  • Your device — always. Files are saved locally and work fully offline. Your version history also stays on-device — see File History.
  • Your other devices and collaborators — peer-to-peer sync keeps every open copy of a file in step, live. This is a Pro feature — though collaborators on a Pro owner's file sync free.
  • The cloud — only with Cloud Sync turned on and an active Cloud Service. The cloud stores the document so devices that were offline can catch up later, without every device being online at once.

Syncing requires a signed-in account — see Accounts and Subscription. To work on a script together with other people in real time, see Sharing and Collaboration.

Cloud Sync

Cloud Sync is on by default for entitled accounts. Toggle it at Settings → Sync. Free accounts see it as a Pro feature; if your Cloud Service lapses, a renew notice appears in its place while peer-to-peer sync between your devices keeps working.

Encrypted files never store plaintext anywhere, and cloud sync for an encrypted file stays off until the file is unlocked — see Security.

When the cloud declines to save

Sometimes the cloud refuses a save — a revoked invite, an expired session. The app tells you rather than failing silently: a persistent "Changes aren't saving to the cloud" warning appears while the problem lasts, and a "Changes are saving again" notice confirms recovery. Your local copy is unaffected either way.

The connection indicator

The status bar shows how the open project is connected, in words. Choose it for details.

  • Connected — everything the project syncs with is reachable.
  • Local only — your changes are safe on this device but aren't reaching the cloud or, on a project with no cloud sync, any other device. It is also what you see while the cloud is refusing saves.
  • Offline — there is no network, or the local copy hasn't finished loading. Changes are saved on this device.

When it reads Local only or Offline, Try again reconnects now instead of waiting for the app's own retry. On a phone the status bar shows the icon without the word; open it to read the state.

People you were working with stay on the list, dimmed, while you can't reach them. See Sharing and Collaboration.

If you are signed out

If your session ends — it expired, you signed out on another device, or your password was changed — EpicDraft tells you when it comes back signed out, once, with the reason when it knows it and a Sign in button. Your work is saved on this device; sign in to keep syncing. Signing out yourself, from the Account page or the User menu, asks first when changes haven't reached the cloud — see Accounts and Subscription.

Folder Sync

Folder Sync mirrors your open files to a folder of plain files on disk, so you can keep your scripts alongside your other documents or under your own backup tools. Set it up in Settings → Sync.

  • It's available on desktop and on the web in Chromium browsers with the File System Access API.
  • In a browser, access to the folder must be re-granted after a reload.
  • The Import and Export buttons bulk-pull files from the folder into EpicDraft and bulk-push your files out to it.