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Saving & loading tapes

Keep a tape as a file and open it again whenever you need it — or bundle all your open tapes into a single project and restore the whole set at once.

A tape is not just scratch paper — you can save it and come back to it later, with every entry and total intact. DeskCalc stores a single tape as a .dsk file; a whole project of several tapes goes into one .dcp file. Both live in the File menu.

A single tape

Save and open one tape — a .dsk file.

A project

All open tapes together — a .dcp file.

Automatic backups

Closed a tape by mistake? Get it back.

One tape

Saving a single tape

Each tab is its own tape. To keep the one you are working on:

Save	File ▸ Save, or `Ctrl` + `S`. Writes the active tape to a `.dsk` file.
Save As	File ▸ Save As — save under a new name or in a different folder.
Open	File ▸ Open, or `Ctrl` + `O`. The tape opens in a tab, and the file name becomes the tab’s title.

A .dsk file holds exactly one tape — the entries, their operators and the running total — so it reopens looking just as you left it.

Several tapes · New

Saving a project

Often a task is spread across several tabs at once — one per client, per job, per month. A project saves them all in a single file, so you can put the whole working set away and bring it all back later.

Save every open tape into one project file, and restore them all at once.

Save Project	File ▸ Save Project… Writes every open tape into one `.dcp` file.
Open Project	File ▸ Open Project… Closes the tapes currently open and restores the saved set — each tab back in place, with its own calculation and total.

Good to know: opening a project replaces what is currently on screen, so save your present work first if you still need it. A .dcp keeps each tab complete — if you entered figures in more than one calculator mode on a tab, all of them are preserved.

Safety net

Automatic backups

Even without saving, DeskCalc keeps a copy of every tape you close or delete for three days. If you closed one by mistake, open File ▸ Open backup copies (Ctrl + R) and pick it from the list to bring it back.

At a glance

Which file is which?

`.dsk`	One tape. Save, Save As and Open — the everyday way to keep a single calculation.
`.dcp`	A project — all open tapes. Save Project and Open Project — put a whole working set away and bring it all back.

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