Plain files on your disk
Thingport stores models as ordinary files in its storage folder, not locked inside a database. Back them up with any tool you already use, and browse them like any other folder.
Choose the folder layout
Under Administration → Storage, admins build the folder structure from blocks:
- Category or folder, with parent ones as parent folders
- Collection
- Tags
- Creator
- Model name and model ID
- File name, optionally with the plate number first
- A folder with a fixed name of your own, such as
Library
Every user’s files sit in a folder of their own first, so a file ends up at, for example,
<user>/Props/Workshop/Cable clip/Cable clip.3mf. The layout can also be typed as text, such as
{category-or-folder}/{model}/{filename}.
Change the layout later and existing files are moved to match in the background, with progress shown as they go. Renaming a model renames its files too, so the folders stay readable. Browse files shows where each model’s files are now.
How much space it takes
Administration → Overview shows the disk space Thingport uses, split into model files, pictures and previews, and other generated files. System Health warns when the storage folder runs low on space or can’t be written to.
The storage folder is the thingport_storage volume, mounted at /app/storage in the backend container.