Workspaces
A workspace holds what is on screen. That includes the tables you loaded, the results with their
queries, triage and notes, the reports with their verdicts, the dataset notes, the descriptions and
the conversation with the AI Assistant. When you save it, you get one file with the .totsum
extension, and when you open that file, the workspace returns as you left it.
Save and open
Section titled “Save and open”- File ▸ Save Workspace (Ctrl+S, Cmd+S on macOS) writes the workspace. The first time, it asks
where; the default folder is the
Workspacesfolder Totsum keeps in your application data, and the local files page says where that is. - File ▸ Save Workspace As… (Cmd+Shift+S on macOS; from the menu on Windows) writes it under another name.
- File ▸ Open Workspace… (Ctrl+O) opens a saved file.
- File ▸ Recent Workspaces lists the last ten files you opened or saved.
- File ▸ New Workspace (Ctrl+N) starts empty: the panes clear and the welcome page returns.
When the workspace has unsaved changes and you open another, start a new one or quit, Totsum asks Save Workspace? with three answers: Save, Don’t Save and Cancel. The window title shows an asterisk after the file name while there are unsaved changes.
Saving and opening a workspace need no license: they work on the free trial and on every edition.
What the app saves on its own
Section titled “What the app saves on its own”Totsum keeps a snapshot of the open workspace for crash recovery. About twenty seconds after your last change, when nothing else is running, it writes the snapshot in the background, and never more often than every fifteen seconds. If Totsum closes unexpectedly, the next launch asks Recover your work?: “Totsum closed unexpectedly with name open. Its state from time can be restored. Anything done in the last few seconds before the crash is not included.” Yes restores it; No discards the snapshot.
The snapshot is not your saved file. It lives in Totsum’s own data folder and is replaced by the
next one. Your .totsum file changes only when you save.
The file
Section titled “The file”A .totsum file is an ordinary ZIP archive. It holds one Parquet file per table, with every
column and row as you imported them, and a JSON file with everything else the workspace remembers. You can
open it without Totsum, with any tool that reads Parquet, and the
workspace file page shows how, with the file layout and its version.
The file holds no license key. It holds your data, so sending it to someone is sending the data; the reports page describes what to send a reviewer instead.