# Library, history and downloads

Everything you generate is saved to your Library. Browse and search it, reopen a prompt, favourite or delete items, and download a file.

## Before you start

The Library is yours alone, so it needs a signed-in account. You can open the page signed out, but it shows a short pitch with a sign-up button instead of your work.

## Find your work

Open **My media** in the sidebar, or go to [/studio/library](https://www.uova.com/studio/library). The header has a **Media** and **Spaces** switch; **Spaces** goes to [your canvases](https://www.uova.com/help/studio/spaces). Under **Media** the tabs are **All**, **Images**, **Videos**, **Favorites** and **Trash**, and the box reads **Search your creations**. A link such as `/studio/library?tab=favorites` opens a tab directly.

- Items are grouped by the day they were made, newest first. More load as you scroll, or with **Load more**.
- A video that is still rendering shows as a pending card and fills in when it finishes. Failed generations are not listed; they are refunded.
- The Library is stored on UOVA's servers and follows your account across devices.
- This browser also keeps up to 400 recent generations locally. If the Library cannot reach the server, it shows those instead, without favorites.
- Upscale, Remove Background and Edit Image outputs are saved to the Library too.

## What you can do with an item

| Action | Where | What it does |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Add to favorites or Remove from favorites | Heart on the card | Moves the item into or out of the **Favorites** tab. |
| Download | Card, or the larger view | Saves the file. See Download below. |
| Delete | Card, or the larger view | Moves the item to **Trash**. |
| Restore | Card in **Trash** | Brings the item back to the tabs it belongs in. |
| Open | Select the picture or clip | Opens the larger view with the prompt and model, arrows to the previous and next item, and actions to reuse the picture as a reference and to recreate the prompt. |

The tab you are on decides what you see when it is empty. **All** says "Nothing here yet" and "Everything you generate is saved here automatically, forever." **Favorites** says "No favorites yet". **Trash** says "Trash is empty" and "Deleted creations land here and can be restored." A search with no matches says "No results".

## Continue from an item

1. **Point at an item** The floating **Continue to create** button follows the last item you pointed at, and starts on the newest. It is hidden in **Trash**.
2. **Select Continue to create** The creator for that kind of item opens, Create image or Create video, with its prompt and, when the catalog still lists it, its model filled in.
3. **Change what you need and select Generate** Nothing is charged until you run it.

## Delete and restore

Deleting an item moves it to **Trash**. It is not removed permanently, and you can restore it from the Trash tab.

## Download

Select download on a card. When the file is on UOVA's own storage, it is fetched and saved as `uova-<id>` with the file's extension (png, jpg, webp, mp4, webm or mov). Otherwise, or if that fetch fails, it opens in a new tab and you save it from there.

Generated images and videos are copied to permanent storage when they finish, because the model provider's own links expire after a while. Your Library items do not depend on those links.

## Projects

Studio **Projects** (the **Projects** page, and **All projects** in the sidebar) group chats and media together. Select **Create new project**, give it a name of up to 120 characters and an optional **Brief** of up to 8,000 characters. The brief holds style, brand and characters, and every chat in the project follows it. A project has **Media** and **Chats** tabs. Projects are private; the dialog notes that shared projects are coming later. Media in a project can be downloaded, reused as a prompt, animated or added to a chat.

## Temporary chats

A temporary Lock-in chat lives in memory only and is dropped when you leave. Anything it generates still lands in your Library. See [The Lock-in agent](https://www.uova.com/help/studio/lock-in-agent).

## Limits

- Deleting moves items to Trash; the tab is the way to bring them back.
- Your generated content is stored on UOVA's servers and associated with your account. It is not shared publicly unless you choose to publish it.

**Will my images disappear?**

Generated files are copied to permanent storage when they complete, and the Library keeps them until you move them to Trash.

**Can I download a video?**

Yes. Use the download action on the card. See the rules above for where the file saves.

Source: https://www.uova.com/help/studio/library-and-downloads