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# Desktop App

> Get started, work with local files and apps, use Remote Access, and troubleshoot the Perplexity app for Mac and Windows.

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    <a className="pplx-coll-article" href="/help-center/help-center/en/articles/19800001-about-the-app">
      <span className="pplx-coll-article-title">About the App</span>
      <span className="pplx-coll-article-desc">The app brings Perplexity to Windows and Mac. In addition to the functionality available on the web, it can work with files and folders on your computer, use</span>
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    <a className="pplx-coll-article" href="/help-center/help-center/en/articles/19800002-get-started">
      <span className="pplx-coll-article-title">Get Started</span>
      <span className="pplx-coll-article-desc">Install the app, sign in, and enable the desktop capabilities you want to use.</span>
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    <a className="pplx-coll-article" href="/help-center/help-center/en/articles/19800003-upgrade-from-the-old-app">
      <span className="pplx-coll-article-title">Upgrade from the Old App</span>
      <span className="pplx-coll-article-desc">Older Windows and Mac apps do not upgrade to the new app automatically. Install the new app, sign in, then delete the old one.</span>
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    <a className="pplx-coll-article" href="/help-center/help-center/en/articles/19800004-work-with-local-files-and-folders">
      <span className="pplx-coll-article-title">Work with Local Files and Folders</span>
      <span className="pplx-coll-article-desc">The app can work directly with files and folders on your computer. You decide which folders it can use.</span>
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    <a className="pplx-coll-article" href="/help-center/help-center/en/articles/19800005-add-files-to-a-request-and-find-generated-files">
      <span className="pplx-coll-article-title">Add Files to a Request and Find Generated Files</span>
      <span className="pplx-coll-article-desc">Attaching a file is different from giving the app access to a folder.</span>
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    <a className="pplx-coll-article" href="/help-center/help-center/en/articles/19800006-work-with-browsers-and-apps">
      <span className="pplx-coll-article-title">Work with Browsers and Apps</span>
      <span className="pplx-coll-article-desc">The floating task bar opens Perplexity while you work in another app. It is available on Windows and Mac.</span>
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    <a className="pplx-coll-article" href="/help-center/help-center/en/articles/19800007-find-projects-threads-and-previous-work">
      <span className="pplx-coll-article-title">Find Projects, Threads, and Previous Work</span>
      <span className="pplx-coll-article-desc">All of your sessions — Ask threads and Computer tasks — appear together in the app's sidebar; there are no separate tabs for each.</span>
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    <a className="pplx-coll-article" href="/help-center/help-center/en/articles/19800008-use-the-app-on-a-mac-mini">
      <span className="pplx-coll-article-title">Use the App on a Mac Mini</span>
      <span className="pplx-coll-article-desc">Perplexity's desktop capabilities live inside the regular Perplexity macOS app — there is no separate Mac mini application.</span>
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    <a className="pplx-coll-article" href="/help-center/help-center/en/articles/19800009-use-remote-access">
      <span className="pplx-coll-article-title">Use Remote Access</span>
      <span className="pplx-coll-article-desc">Remote Access lets you start, continue, and monitor desktop work from another Perplexity surface, including another desktop, mobile, or the web.</span>
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    <a className="pplx-coll-article" href="/help-center/help-center/en/articles/19800010-fix-local-file-and-folder-access">
      <span className="pplx-coll-article-title">Fix Local File and Folder Access</span>
      <span className="pplx-coll-article-desc">Use this article when the app cannot find, read, create, or change a local file, or when the folder option is missing.</span>
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    <a className="pplx-coll-article" href="/help-center/help-center/en/articles/19800011-fix-a-task-that-is-stuck-or-did-not-create-a-file">
      <span className="pplx-coll-article-title">Fix a Task That Is Stuck or Did Not Create a File</span>
      <span className="pplx-coll-article-desc">Open Perplexity in your browser and find the task. The task may have continued successfully even if the app stopped updating.</span>
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    <a className="pplx-coll-article" href="/help-center/help-center/en/articles/19800012-fix-crashes-blank-windows-or-high-resource-use">
      <span className="pplx-coll-article-title">Fix Crashes, Blank Windows, or High Resource Use</span>
      <span className="pplx-coll-article-desc">Close and reopen the app, confirm that the current version is installed, and restart the computer if the app remains unavailable.</span>
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- [How can we help?](/help-center/help-center/en/index.md)
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- [Security and Privacy with File Uploads](/help-center/help-center/en/articles/10354810-security-and-privacy-with-file-uploads.md)