# .uxd files and uploads

> Save a copy of a file to your computer as a .uxd, and bring .uxd files back into your account from Home.

Source: https://uxdeck.app/guide/uxd-files (checked against uxdeck on 16 October 2026)

Your files live in your uxdeck account, and every change is saved there as you work. A `.uxd` file is a copy of one on your own computer: to keep a backup, to send a file to someone outside your team, or to move a design between accounts. Opening a `.uxd` always makes a new file in your account; it never replaces the one you have.

## Save a copy to your computer

In an open file, choose **File** > **Save a local copy**, or press <kbd>⇧</kbd><kbd>⌘</kbd><kbd>S</kbd>.

uxdeck gathers the file's pictures and videos into the copy, so it opens anywhere, even with no connection or if the original is deleted. A large file can take a moment: the toast says it is preparing, then **Saved** with the file's name when it is in your downloads.

## Bring .uxd files in from Home

1. Go to **Home**.
2. Drop one or more `.uxd` files anywhere on Home, or press **Open a file** and choose them.
3. Each one goes up to your account in the **Uploads** tray at the bottom right, with its progress. Home stays usable while it works.
4. When one is done, press **Open** on its row, or find it among your files.

The tray says **Upload complete** (or how many uploads are complete) when everything is in. **Cancel** stops an upload (it asks first: the file will not be added), and **Retry** tries a failed one again. The same tray shows sites being published.

## Open one from inside a file

Choose **File** > **Open a local copy…** and pick a `.uxd`. It opens as a new file, beside the one you were in.

## Double-click to open

Once uxdeck is installed as an app (see [Install uxdeck as an app](/guide/install)), double-clicking a `.uxd` on your computer opens it in uxdeck. This works in Chrome and Edge on a computer.

## Figma files

The same **Open a file** and drop on Home also take a `.fig` saved from Figma. See [Import a Figma file](/guide/import-figma).

## Catches

- **Very large videos or pictures may stay out of the copy.** If they do not fit, the toast says how many were left out: the copy shows them only on this computer, or while the file is online.
- **Opening makes a new file.** It counts towards your plan's files; on Free, with no room left, the upload stops and says so.
- **A copy does not stay in step.** Changes in the copy and in the original are separate from then on.
- **A very large file** may ask which pages to bring in. The others can come in later as another file. See [Large files](/guide/large-files).
- **Older `.uxc` files** from earlier versions of uxdeck still open the same way.