Pull one project out of a system backup
Open a full system backup, see only the projects it actually uses, and restore, bounce, or share any one of them on its own.
A system backup is the whole device. Restoring one to get a single project back means throwing away everything you have done since. Best Friend opens the container instead.
Open it
Tap a system backup’s row. The trailing affordance is a chevron, not a Restore button, and the row body toggles it open.
Inside you see only the projects the backup actually uses — empty ones are not listed. Each is
titled Project <n> with its own lit cell in the grid icon, drawn exactly like a top-level project
backup, and takes the parent’s colour until you give it one of its own.
The first open shows a brief “Opening backup…“. Closing and re-opening is instant, and adds no duplicate rows.
What you can do with a revealed project
Everything you can do with a project backup you imported directly:
- Preview it — see hear a backup before you restore it.
- Restore it to any of the nine project slots.
- Bounce it, with no EP connected — see bounce from a backup.
- Edit its note and colour.
- Share it out as a
.ppak, which Teenage Engineering’s own EP Sample Tool can open. - Delete it, like any other row.
The long-press menu reads Restore, Share, Bounce, Edit, Delete, with the first three as large icon buttons.
Restoring to a chosen slot
Restoring a project offers the nine targets as large numerals, laid out in the keypad’s own order:
7 8 9
4 5 6
1 2 3The project’s original slot is pre-selected. Whichever one you tap is the one it overwrites — restoring to the wrong slot replaces a different project, with no second prompt.
Deleting and restoring rows
- Deleting the parent system backup takes its revealed projects with it, and one Undo puts the whole group back, still nested.
- An opened system row also offers Restore Deleted Projects, which brings back only what is missing — never a duplicate of one that is already there.
Searching
A search lists matching projects flat, with no parent row above them, so you can find a project inside a system backup you have not opened.
A backup from a different model
A system backup this EP cannot restore still opens and browses. Its subtitle keeps the type, model, size, and date and appends “Incompatible”, and only Restore is greyed out.
