Where everything lives

The library folder, Tessera’s own folder, your games, and the logs.

#Your library

The folder you chose. Inside it:

tessera-library.json   what this library is, and its preferences
packs/<pack>/          one folder per pack
  pack.json            its record: license, source, creator, tags, version
  original/            your download, exactly as it arrived
  licence/             license files, the page snapshot, receipts
collections/           one file per collection
.bin/                  what you deleted, until it is emptied

Everything there is ordinary files. Copy the folder to a drive, open it on another computer, or read pack.json in a text editor: Tessera writes it to be read.

#Tessera's own folder

The search index, the thumbnails, the logs, the linked games and the app's settings:

  • macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Tessera
  • Windows: %APPDATA%\Tessera
  • Linux: ~/.config/Tessera

Nothing there is irreplaceable: the index and thumbnails are rebuilt from the library, and projects.json is the list of games you linked.

#Your games

In each linked project: the copied files, CREDITS.md, and .tessera/manifest.json, which records every asset copied, where it came from and under what license.

#Logs

Logs/ inside Tessera's folder, one file per day. Settings, Privacy and problems, has a button to open them.

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