The Project Folder

A Supervertaler project isn’t just the .svproj file — it’s a folder that holds the project file together with the documents it works on. Keeping everything in one folder means a project is self-contained: you can move, rename, zip or email the folder and it still opens and exports correctly.

What’s in a project folder

My Project/
├─ My Project.svproj     ← the project file
├─ source/               ← the original documents you're translating
└─ target/               ← the translated documents you export

source/ — when you save a project, its original document is copied here, and the project remembers it by a path relative to the folder. That’s what makes the project portable: it no longer depends on the document staying at the exact location you first imported it from. Move or rename the original afterwards and your export still works.
target/ — when you run Project → Export → Export Translated Document (or Simple Text), the Save dialog opens here by default, so your finished translations land next to their sources. You can still browse somewhere else; this is only the default.

Why this matters

Portability — hand the whole folder to a colleague, or move it between machines, and the structure-preserving export keeps working. Nothing points at a file that only exists on your computer.
No accidental cross-wiring — because the source is stored relative to the project folder, a project can never end up bound to an unrelated document.

Existing projects

Projects created before this layout existed still work — they reference their source by an absolute path, and Supervertaler resolves it as before. The next time you save such a project, its source is copied into source/ and the reference switches to the portable relative form automatically.