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- **Encrypted**: conversations, the records of what the AI has done, saved passwords and accounts, and the knowledge base are encrypted with this organization's own key, and the key is kept in the system keychain. To open this data on another computer or after a reinstall, you need this organization's recovery key file. The first-run setup has you save one first; afterwards you can also save another from "Settings › Organizations" with "Save recovery key…". Don't keep it together with this computer. If the key can't be found in the keychain at startup, the app asks you to choose the recovery key file; you can also create a new organization instead, and the original data is left as it is.
- **Not encrypted**: the key is kept in the organization's data folder. Copy the folder to another computer and it opens directly, with no recovery key needed; anyone who gets the folder can also read it. "Settings › Organizations" can likewise save a recovery key, which contains the same key.
This choice is made only once, in the first-run setup.
## Managing organizations
In "Settings › Organizations":
- **New organization**: enter a name to create one. After it is created you are asked whether to switch to it right away. The first time a new organization starts, the first-run setup appears.
- **Switch**: switch to another organization.
- **Rename**: change the display name. The name is stored only on this machine and is used to tell organizations apart.
- **Delete**: delete an organization; see below.
The one marked Current in the list is the organization currently in use.
## Switching organizations restarts the app
Only one organization is open at a time. When you switch, Notochord restarts and starts with the new organization.
Chats, scheduled tasks, and gem tasks in progress in the current organization stop; when you switch back, scheduled tasks catch up on the time points they missed.
## Deleting an organization
Deleting permanently erases all of the organization's data on this machine and destroys its encryption key. **This can't be undone, and the data can't be recovered.** To prevent accidental deletion, you must type the organization's name to confirm.
There are two restrictions:
- You can't delete the organization currently in use; switch to another organization first.
- You can't delete the last organization; at least one must remain.
Also be careful when deleting local models: if you delete a downloaded local model in any one organization, the other organizations lose that file too and have to download it again when needed.
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