The ⋯ menu on an old screenplay: back up, archive, delete, copy across

In one line: this page covers the four things the ⋯ on a screenplay card can do, and where renaming actually happens.

Four actions behind the ⋯

Hover a card and a ⋯ appears in its corner. Open it and there are exactly four items:

Item	What it does
Export Backup	Downloads the whole book as one .slima file
Archive	Moves it to the Completed tab
Copy as new Writing Studio book	Makes a snapshot copy in the Writing Studio
Delete	Moves it to the Trash tab

No Edit, no Rename. Titles are changed from inside the book.

Renaming, and changing format or type

Open the book and click its title in the top left. An Edit screenplay dialog opens with three fields:

• Script Name
• Format: Taiwan TV/Film or Hollywood. Switching re-renders the dialogue layout immediately.
• Type: Film, TV Series, Short Film or Micro Drama. Changing type leaves your existing seasons and episodes alone.

Neither change costs you content. Dialogue, action, scene data all stay put. The same dialog carries a Copy as new Writing Studio book button at the bottom, which is the same action as the one on the shelf card.

Exporting a backup

One book: ⋯ → Export Backup, and a .slima file downloads. For several at once, use Batch Export on the shelf to tick the ones you want — that button only appears at desktop width.

A .slima file can be brought back. Import it from the Writing Studio shelf and it restores as a screenplay, landing on the Script Studio shelf again. The backup is not a dead archive; it genuinely comes back.

Archive and unarchive

Archive moves the whole book to the Completed tab. Archived work still opens and still edits. The one difference is that it stops counting toward today's word count.

To bring it back, hover its card in the Completed tab and an Unarchive button appears, with a delete button beside it.

This is the only way to mark a screenplay as finished. There is no separate badge that leaves the book sitting under Works.

Delete, restore, delete permanently

Delete is a soft delete. The book moves to Trash and is kept for 60 days, the same rule as the Writing Studio shelf.

Cards in the Trash tab work differently from the others — two buttons sit directly on the card, no ⋯ needed:

• Restore puts it back under Works
• Delete permanently opens a red confirmation, and that one is final

Copy as new Writing Studio book

This is the route into 4.0. Both entry points open the same dialog: the ⋯ on the shelf card, or the button at the bottom of the Edit screenplay dialog inside the book.

How the copy runs

⋯ → Copy as new Writing Studio book Confirm the new title Start copy Go to new book

The new title defaults to the old one plus a suffix. Change it before you start if you want something else.

Copying is not moving. The original stays in Script Studio, complete, and it does not turn read-only. From that moment the two books are separate: later edits to the old one do not follow the new one.

What travels and what does not is set out on the old Script Studio page, so it is not repeated here. A few things that page does not mention do change what you end up looking at:

• Unsaved edits are flushed first. Hit copy seconds after editing a character or a scene and those last keystrokes still make it in.
• Nothing in the old studio's bin comes back to life. Characters, locations, storylines and notes that were hidden when you deleted a season do not reappear as ordinary files in the new book. To rescue those, rescue them in the old book.
• Files you put in the tree yourself travel at their original paths. An Images folder you made at the root is still Images in the new book, not folded into the planning folder.
• Setup-and-payoff note pairs are re-linked. A note pair still finds each other on the other side.
• Media that cannot be fetched is skipped. If an image is not stored on this device and the cloud is unreachable at that moment, it is left out, and the finish screen tells you how many were skipped. The files in the original book are untouched.

Related

• The old Script Studio: what still works
• The legacy-format prompt
• My Screenplays: where your old work is
• Restoring a book from a backup
• Book lifecycle in the Writing Studio