Where your files are

Island Pilot keeps your data in two places: your project folder and its own data folder. Knowing which one holds what helps you avoid losing work.

Two places

	Project folder	Data folder
Location	The Workspace chosen for the project	`%USERPROFILE%\.island-pilot`
Contents	Your island and the `Pilot/` folder	Conversations, agents, settings, To-Do, Noteboards, Tendances Maps (Map Trends), profile
Scope	One project	All projects
If you delete the project	Stays on disk	This project’s data is removed

Island Pilot never deletes a project’s folder. Your keys are in neither of these places: they are in the Windows vault.

The `Pilot/` folder

Island Pilot creates it at the root of the project folder, and fills it as you go. You can see it in Content, in the Workspace.

Location	Contents
`Pilot/PROJECT.md`	The project memory. Each agent reads its first 8,000 characters and keeps it up to date. You can edit it.
`Pilot/Generated/<tâche>/`	The generated images and 3D models, one folder per task.
`Pilot/Attachments/`	A copy of the images attached to your messages, so that the tools can use them.
`Pilot/Skills/<nom>/SKILL.md`	The skills learned by the agents on this project.
`Pilot/UI Design/design.json`	The screens, elements, sounds and colours of UI Design.
`Pilot/UI Design/Assets/`	The library images, as PNG.
`Pilot/UI Design/Sounds/`	The exported sounds `S_<Nom>.wav`, and your original WAV files in `Sources/`.
`Pilot/UI Design/Fonts/`	The fonts as TTF, with their licences, exported for UEFN.
`Pilot/Thumbnails/`	The thumbnails, with `Captures/`, `Characters/` and the publishing kit in `Kit/`.
`Pilot/Board/<noteboard>/`	The images of your Noteboards. Their text is not there.

The data folder

%USERPROFILE%\.island-pilot is in your Windows user folder. To open it: Paramètres › Général › Données (Settings › General › Data), then Ouvrir le dossier (Open the folder).

Location	Contents
`island-pilot.db`	The local database.
`backups/`	One automatic copy per day, the last five.
`snapshots/`	The copies made with Créer une sauvegarde (Create a backup).
`thumbnail-styles/`	The thumbnail style examples, shared by all projects.
`crashes/`	The crash reports waiting to be sent.
`cli/google/`	Gemini CLI, if it was installed by Island Pilot.

Do not edit the database by hand. See Data and backups.

What the backups cover

Conversely, the project folder contains neither your conversations nor the text of your Noteboards. Copying that folder to another PC does not take them with it.