Data and backups

• Your data is a plain folder — and it stays yours. Dóru has no accounts, no cloud backend, and no telemetry. Nothing is uploaded anywhere unless you configure an AI provider — and even then, only the content you send in chat leaves your machine. If you want to keep everything on your computer, local providers (Ollama, LM Studio) work fully offline.
• The folder is version-control friendly: tree.doru is a stable binary file, while history.jsonl, settings.json and theme.css are text — commit the whole folder to git if you like.
• To back up: copy the project folder. That's all there is. Restoring is copying it back.
• If some file inside the project is missing, Dóru recreates it silently on open (defaults for settings.json/theme.css, an empty tree, folders).

Syncing between machines

Dóru has no built-in sync engine — projects are plain folders, and keeping them in sync is your job: iCloud Drive, Dropbox, rclone, rsync, a USB stick, whatever you prefer.

One caveat: tree.doru is a SQLite database, and live-syncing an open project with a file-sync tool can copy the file in a half-written state and corrupt it. The safe practice is: close the project (or the app) before syncing. Copying a closed project is always safe.