### 5.5.7. Archiving CFX Projects

Archiving is the process of making a project available to another machine; you use File > Archive to create a project archive. After you set the filename for the project and click Save, the Archive Options dialog box appears, enabling you to set which optional files to include in the archive.

Note: You should not archive or restore a project while the CFX-Solver Manager is running.

Archiving CFX projects follows the steps above, but the resulting archive is created with the restrictions listed below.

The following will be archived (provided that you choose the appropriate options when archiving):

- Flamelet libraries

- Profile boundary files

- Initial values files provided by the Workbench project schematic and those manually selected by you from within CFX-Pre

- PAR files specified in CFX-Pre

- ANSYS Input File (provided by the Workbench project schematic or manually specified by you from within CFX-Pre)

- RGP files

- If you choose to archive with the Result/Solution files option selected, CFX-Solver Results files are included.

- If you choose to archive with the Imported files external to project directory option selected, imported files are included. For example, an imported geometry file will be added to the import_files directory in the archived version of the project.

- In the normal workflow, no files are written to the User_files directory. However, if you perform operations such as the export of a file from CFD-Post, that file will be copied to User_files. If you then choose to archive with the Items in the User_files folder option selected, such files are included in the archive.

The following will not be archived:

- Directory structures

- Customization files

- User Fortran source code or libraries

- Custom solvers

- Files referenced from within another non-CFX file (for example, a file referenced by an ANSYS Input File).

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