An Overview of the snapshot manager

The Snapshot Manager Interface

Reach by:

Menu command Documents > Snapshots >Snapshot Manager

(There is no keyboard shortcut.)

1. The Search bar (see Searching below)

Searching for Snapshots

Above the snapshot list sidebar (on the left panel) is a search tool that you can use to quickly locate snapshots by their snapshot name, snapshot date, the name of the binder item they are associated with or even by fragments of text within the snapshot itself.

This simple search tool has a few rules and capabilities to be aware of:

The basic mode of this form of search will always be “exact phrase”, meaning the text you type in must be found in the order you type it in, but this is not case dependent.

All content searched- You do not need to specify which type of content you want to search through. All matches will be returned, wherever they are found as text.

Search by Date- to isolate snapshots by a particular day, month or year, or even by all dates before or after a certain time. The date search syntax is almost identical to the one used in the main project search tool

Examples-Search before <1y/m/d

Or after a date >2014

2. Is a list of all files and folders that possess snapshots and a list of those snapshots. If you click and highlight the name, you then see the snapshot previewed in the right panel. Double clicking on the name allows you to edit the snapshot. (File titles Cannot be edited in the Snapshot Manager)

The sidebar on the left contains an alphabetically sorted list of every document in the binder that has a snapshot, and then grouped within each, a list of all respective snapshots in reverse chronological order.

3. The display area for the currently selected snapshot and this can be expanded with the mouse by dragging the edges.

4. Snapshot Footer Options are identical to those in the Inspector’s header for Snapshots and include:

Reveal in Binder- to show where the file containing the snapshot is located, IF you are not sure inside the Snapshot manager where it is originally from.

Delete- (Note: the - sign just to the right of this menu preforms the same function.)

Export…- This will export the snapshot as a RTF file that can be read in Microsoft Word or a similar word processor. (See below.)

5. Compare- This is the same dropdown menu as in the Snapshot Inspector Pane with the same options for comparing current documents and previous versions, or even just two previous versions.

6. Rollback- This will rollback to an earlier version of the file or folder and has the same function as in the Snapshot Inspector Pane.

Renaming Snapshots

1. Double click a titled or untitled snapshot name in the manager and rename.

2. Click a Snapshot name and then the F2 key to rename.

Exporting Snapshots

(This can only be done from the Snapshot Manager.) This allows you to save a snapshot(s) as a file to your computer.

1. Select the Snapshot or multiple snapshots to export.

2. Click the … option in the left footer of the Manager.

3. If you only choose one Snapshot to export the Windows Explorer will open for you to name the exported RTF file and find a location. IF you choose multiple snapshots to export then you will need to find or create a folder to place them inside of in the Windows Explorer.

Note: you may choose the file type such as a RTF, DOCX, or TXT file to save your exported Snapshot in.

Managing/Deleting Snapshots

Deleting Multiple Snapshots

You can delete multiple snapshots for one file/folder or multiple snapshots across several files at one time.

3 Methods to select multiple files

Hold the Ctrl key and click files to select for deletion.

Hold the Ctrl + Shift keys to select range of contiguous files

Edit >Select All (or the keyboard command Ctrl + A)

3 Methods to delete multiple OR single files

Highlight and select, then:

1. Click the … button in the footer bar on the left to see option to delete.

2. Click - button in the Snapshot Manager footer bar on left.

3. Keyboard shortcut- Ctrl +Delete keys

Deleting Single Snapshots

For a snapshot go to the lower left footer of the Manager click the - sign, or use the dropdown menu and select delete.

Or select a snapshot and use keyboard command Ctrl + Del

For any of the above, this is not reversible and Scrivener will show a warning message to make sure you want to do this.

Please- Strongly consider backing up your project before making sweeping changes with snapshots including deletions.