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Drafts and Files

A .grafida file is one article — its text, its pictures, its metadata — packaged into a single file you can move around by hand. It is how work travels between this device and Akeeba's desktop Grafida app, or simply how you keep an offline copy of something important.

There is no sync service behind this. Exporting and importing a .grafida file is a deliberate, one-off exchange, not something that happens automatically in the background.

Exporting

From an open article's ⋯ menu, Export… saves the current draft, packages it, and opens the ordinary iOS share sheet — AirDrop it to a Mac, save it to iCloud Drive or Files, attach it to an email, whatever suits you.

Importing

A .grafida file always becomes a new local draft — it never silently overwrites an existing one. You can bring one in three ways:

  • Import from file…, in the toolbar of the Articles screen.
  • Dragging and dropping the file onto the Articles screen.
  • Opening the file directly from the Files app (or receiving it by AirDrop) — Grafida launches and imports it automatically.

If you have not connected a site yet, Grafida holds the file and imports it the moment you add one.

Replacing an already-open article

Replace from file…, in the editor's ⋯ menu, is different from importing: it overwrites the article you already have open — title, body, everything — from a picked .grafida file, after asking you to confirm. The article stays linked to whichever site and remote article it already was.

What a .grafida file does and does not carry

It carries the article's text, its metadata, and copies of its pictures, so it opens correctly on a device that has never seen the original images. It deliberately does not carry which site the article belonged to, or any token — a .grafida file is safe to send to someone else without handing them access to your site.