General Best Practices

Learn efficient workflows and tips for managing your data and sessions in Turbo Launcher.

What You'll Learn

• Best practices for saving files and data persistence
• When to reset sessions vs. starting new ones

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Data Persistence & Saving Work

Turbo Launcher keeps your files safe while isolating the application's system changes.

1. Shared Storage (Your Files)

Your standard folders—Documents, Desktop, and Turbo Drive (T:)—are "Shared Storage."

• Behavior: Files saved here are stored safely on your device or network.
• Persistence: They are not deleted if you reset the application session.

2. Session Storage (App Settings)

The application itself (including its registry settings, AppData configuration, and installed plugins) runs in "Session Storage."

• Behavior: This data exists only inside the container to prevent conflicts with your system.
• Persistence: If you select Delete Session to fix a glitch, this data is wiped. The app will revert to its default settings (like a factory reset).

Best Practice

Save documents to your Desktop or Documents folders as usual. Avoid saving files to system directories (like C:\Program Files), as these are temporary.

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Session Management Tips

When to "Delete Session"

Use Delete Session (from the Sessions tab or right-click context menu) when:

• An application is stuck or frozen.
• An application is behaving erratically and restarting it doesn't help.
• You want to completely reset the application's local state to "factory defaults".

Warning: This wipes any data stored in the virtual container (see Data Persistence above).

When to "New Session"

Use New Session when:

• You want to open a second instance of an app with different settings (for example, different environment variables).
• You want to test a clean environment without losing the state of your current running session.