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-title: Snapshots
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-<p>
- Sometimes you will want to save a <dfn>snapshot</dfn> of the current state of a session for possible
- use in the future. For example, you may be about to change the entire
- arrangement of a piece, or drastically alter the signal processing, and
- want a reference to come back to, should that not work out.
-</p>
-<p>
- This is easily accomplished using <kbd class="menu">Session >
- Snapshot</kbd>.
- A small dialog will appear, allowing you to enter a name for the snapshot.
- The default name is based on the current date and time.<br />
- You can create any number of snapshots.
-</p>
-<p class="warning">
- Creating a snapshot does <strong>not</strong> modify your session,
- nor does it save your session. Instead, it saves an alternate version
- of the session, within the session folder. The snapshot shares all data
- present in the session.
-</p>
-<p>
- After creating a snapshot, you can continue working on the session and
- save it normally using <kbd class="menu">Session > Save</kbd> and any
- existing snapshots will remain unchanged.
-</p>
-
-<h2>Switching to a Snapshot</h2>
-<p>
- If you are already working on a session and want to to switch to an
- existing snapshot, navigate the <a href="/ardours-interface/editor-lists/snapshot-list/">Snapshot List</a>.
- Find the name of the snapshot in the list and click it. Ardour will switch
- to the snapshot. If there are unsaved changes in the current session, Ardour will
- ask what you want to do.
-</p>
-
-<h2>Starting Ardour With a Snapshot</h2>
-<p>
- Since a snapshot is just another session file stored within the session
- folder, you can specify that "version" when loading an existing session.
- The browser in the "Open Session" dialog will show an expander arrow for
- sessions that have more than 1 session file (i.e. snapshots) present
- — click on it to see the list, and then click on the name of the
- snapshot you want to load.
-</p>
-
-<h2>Saving and Switching to a Snapshot</h2>
-<p>
- Sometimes you may want to create a snapshot and then have all future
- edits and modifications saved to that snapshot rather than the main
- session. This is easily done using <kbd class="menu">Session > Save
- As</kbd>. This does not create a new session folder, but saves your
- session as a new snapshot and then switches the "current snapshot"
- to the newly created one. All subsequent saves of the session will
- be stored in this new snapshot, and existing snapshots (and the main
- session) will be left unaffected.
-</p>