Saving and managing documents

Saving new documents

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Saving documents

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Moving local documents to your Workspace

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To save a new document in the Mac app, choose File > Save (⌘S) to open the save dialog. Give your document a name, and (optionally) set it as a Library or template. From here you can also choose to save it to a specific project or collection.

Click the + next to the project list to create a new project, or use New Collection to create a new collection within a project. When you’re done, click Save.

Once you’ve saved your document Sketch will automatically and regularly save progress in the background as you work, so there’s no need to manually save again.

If you close a document while it’s saving to your Workspace, we’ll ask you whether you want to wait for the save to complete or whether you want to close and cancel the save. If you select Close and Cancel, the update will not upload to your Workspace.

You can also save a document to your Workspace by clicking on the Collaborate button in the toolbar , choosing a Workspace and a project (if you’ve created one) to save to, then clicking Save.

You can drag one or more local documents onto the Workspace window to save them to your Workspace. When you do this, you’ll be able to choose a Workspace and project to save it to.

From the regular save dialog, choose Save to Your Mac to save your document locally. You can also bring up the local save dialog via File > Save to Your Mac.

Pinning documents

You can pin important documents to the top of the sidebar in the web app and Workspace window in the Mac app. Pinned items are personal to you, so you can use them in whatever way suits your workflow best.

To pin a document in the web app, hover over its thumbnail, click the and select Pin Document. To unpin it, follow the same steps and select Unpin Document.

In the Mac app, open the Workspace Window, right-click on a document thumbnail and select Pin Document. To unpin it, follow the same steps and select Unpin Document.

Creating a local copy

In the Mac app Depending on your Auto Save settings, you can either choose File > Duplicate (Auto Save enabled) or File > Save As (Auto Save disabled) to save a new copy of your current document. In the save sheet, you can choose to save it locally (on your Mac) or to a Workspace.

Tip: If you have Auto Save enabled, you’ll only see Duplicate in the File menu, but you can hold down ⌥ to show Save As instead.

In the web app From your Workspace or project view, hover over your document’s thumbnail, click on and select Download Document. From the document or Artboard view, click on in the top nav bar and choose Download Document.

Downloading documents

You can download any document in your Workspace by clicking Download Document at the bottom of the sidebar in the document view, or by hovering over a document’s thumbnail, clicking and selecting Download document.

Note: Clicking Download Document will download the update you’re currently viewing — even if that’s an older update.

Moving drafts into projects

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Moving and renaming documents

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In the web app  You can move documents from My Drafts to a shared Workspace by hovering over the document’s thumbnail, clicking the icon that appears and choosing Move to Project. From there, select the project you want to move your document to and click Move to confirm.

Creating preview thumbnails

You can set any Artboard within a document as a preview thumbnail. The thumbnail will appear in the web app, Mac app, iOS app, and in Finder. To use a specific Artboard as the preview thumbnail for a document, Control-click on its name on the Canvas or in the Layer List and select Set As Thumbnail from the contextual menu. Selecting the option again will remove it from the Artboard.

If you don’t select an Artboard for a thumbnail, Sketch will automatically use the first Artboard of the first page in your document — provided it’s dimensions are at least 250x250p.

Creating and viewing document versions

To manually save a new version, open a document in the Mac app and select File > Create Version ** — or press ⌃⌘S. Add an (optional) description, choose whether you want to star it, and click **Save.

You can view all versions under the Versions panel in the web app. Click on any version to view it. When you’re viewing an older version, you can click the See Latest Version button in the top-right to go straight to the latest update.

You can also see versions of specific Artboards (if they’ve changed) when viewing an Artboard.

Adding descriptions to versions

You can add a description to any version in the web app to highlight key milestones or important changes in your document’s history. For example, you could make note of what’s changed to your design or list the latest components you’ve added to a Library.

Deleting versions

Open your document and hover over the version you want to delete in the Versions panel , click on and choose Delete. You will need to confirm that you want to delete that version by clicking Delete Version in the confirmation window that appears.

Note: If there is only one version in the document’s history, you won’t be able to delete it.

Duplicating documents

Occasionally you may want to create a duplicate of a Workspace document so that you can separate it from the original document and all its versions. For example:

1. Someone has shared a public document with you from another Workspace that you want to copy to your own to work with.
2. You want to duplicate a document that already exists elsewhere in your Workspace so that you can the develop the documents in different directions.

In both cases, you can use the Duplicate to My Drafts option, which you’ll find in the:

• Mac app’s Workspace window by right- or Control-clicking on a document’s thumbnail.
• Document’s contextual menu in the Web app when viewing document thumbnails as a grid, or on the far right when viewing documents as a list.
• Nav Bar’s contextual menu when viewing a specific document.

If you duplicate a public document and you are a Member of multiple Workspaces, you can choose which Workspace’s My Drafts folder to store the duplicate in. In this case, you’ll see a dialog to choose which Workspace you want to duplicate the document to. The duplicate file is named as a Copy of the original.

Renaming documents

Searching for documents

Use the search bar in the top-right of the Workspace window in the Mac app or the search bar in the web app. You can search a document by its name, the author of the latest update, and choose whether you want to search within a specific project or all the documents in your Workspace.

Deleting documents

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When you delete a document in your Workspace, it’ll land in the Trash. Sketch will permanently delete any documents that have been in the Trash for 90 days, but up until that point you can easily restore them.

In the Mac app Control-click on a document’s thumbnail in the Workspace window and choose Delete Document, or click once on the thumbnail to select it and press the backspace key on your keyboard.

In the web app there are three ways you can delete a document:

• From your Workspace or project view, hover over your document’s thumbnail, click the icon, choose Delete and confirm your decision in the dialog that appears.
• You can also drag and drop a document’s thumbnail to the Trash in the sidebar.
• If you’re viewing a single Artboard or in the document’s overview, click the on the right of the Nav Bar and choose Delete.

Restoring documents

To restore a file in the Trash , click on the document’s preview and click Restore. You can also hover over the document’s preview in the Trash, click the icon and select Restore.

Permanently deleting documents

To permanently delete a document from the web app, find it in the Trash, hover over its thumbnail and click the and select Delete Permanently. When you delete a document permanently, it will also remove all its activity and history for your whole team.

You can do the same in the Mac app by right-clicking on a Trashed document and selecting Delete Permanently.

Emptying the Trash

To completely empty the Trash and permanently delete all documents it contains via the web app, hover over the Trash icon in the sidebar, click and select Empty. You can do the same in the Mac app my right-clicking on the Trash in the Workspace window and selecting Empty Trash.

Managing documents in My Drafts

In My Drafts, you can store your private documents and Libraries that aren’t ready for the rest of the people in your Workspace to see — whether it’s a personal project, or an idea you’ve only just started working on.

You can still share individual My Drafts documents with specific people, which makes it ideal for sharing an idea with a smaller groups of people.

In the Mac app, you’ll see My Drafts in the sidebar of the Workspace window. You can also access My Drafts from the sidebar in the web app. In both cases you’ll find My Drafts right below Libraries.

You can save a new draft document to My Drafts just as you would save any other document to a Workspace. In the Mac app, select File > Save or press ⌘S. In the menu that appears, select Workspace, choose the Workspace in which you want to save your document, and select My Drafts from the drop-down menu.

Alternatively, drag and drop documents from your desktop into My Drafts in the Workspace window of the Mac app.

By default, anything you save in My Drafts is private and only you can see it, but you can share documents in My Drafts with other Workspace members and Guests through that document’s individual share settings.

Sharing or deleting draft documents

To share a document in My Drafts, you can invite people in that document’s individual share settings, or move it to another location in your shared Workspace. People that you invite to your My Drafts documents will see your document in their Shared with Me tab.

If you move a document out of My Drafts, everyone in your Workspace will be able to view your document and Editors will be able to open it in the Mac app.

You can delete a draft in the same way that you delete any other document. When you delete a draft it will remain in your Workspace’s Trash for 90 days. However, only you will be able to see drafts you moved into your Workspace’s Trash — nobody else can see them.