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Save and resume

MLabel saves your position, record answers, and session answers automatically while you work. The Save button exports files; you do not need it to preserve a session. The saved session lives on this computer and is associated with the configuration path and input-file path.

Take a break

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  1. Close MLabel without exporting if you need to keep partially entered answers.
  2. Keep the configuration and input file at their current paths.
  3. Later, open the same configuration and input file.
  4. Accept the resume prompt to restore your answers and position.
The resume prompt offers to restore a saved session or start fresh.The resume prompt offers to restore a saved session or start fresh.
Resume restores saved answers. Starting fresh discards that saved session. Select image to enlarge.

Only one saved session is kept at a time. Starting work on another file can replace it. Export completed work before changing assignments, and remember that remaining files do not carry partially entered labels.

“This file has changed”

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The input file’s contents differ from the saved version. Labels are stored by row position; adding, removing, or reordering rows can attach restored answers to the wrong records.

If possible, restore the original input file before resuming. Otherwise ask the preparer how to recover the assignment. A byte-identical copy is not treated as changed merely because its modification date differs.

Exporting clears the session

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A successful export clears the saved session. Finished answers are in the output file; unfinished source records are in the remaining file. Unfinished answers are not exported.

Keep editing keeps the current answers in memory. The next edit starts autosaving again. A failed export does not clear the saved session.

Inspect or clear a session

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Open Settings → Session to see the current files and progress. Clear session asks for confirmation, then discards the entered answers and saved session. It cannot be undone.

The Session section in Settings shows the active configuration, input file, and saved progress.The Session section in Settings shows the active configuration, input file, and saved progress.
Check which files a saved session belongs to before clearing it. Select image to enlarge.

Where it lives

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Platform Saved session
macOS ~/Library/Application Support/MLabel/session.json
Windows %APPDATA%\MLabel\session.json

Moving this file is not the normal handoff process. Use exports when returning work. Sessions with an incompatible saved-session format are discarded; this is separate from the application’s release number.