# Auto-Snapshots **URL:** \ **Category:** Wish List\ **Created:** [September 27, 2006, 3:45pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/auto-snapshots/358 "2006-09-27T15:45:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![awpstrike](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/f07891/32.png) [@awpstrike](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/awpstrike)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2006, 3:45pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/auto-snapshots/358/1 "2006-09-27T15:45:03Z")
One more for now… There might be a feature like this already that I missed, but I don’t think so. I’m a little lazy and while I know it’s simple to just do a snapshot every time you’re about to edit a file, I think it would be nice if this were automated. For example, when you open any particular file, it should check to see if the last snapshot is identical to the current version. If not, it should take a snapshot of it. Another possibility would be to do this for all files when you either launch or quit Scrivener. A third option would be to do this only once you start editing a file. For example, I start typing a new paragraph, it quickly checks what the file was like BEFORE I started typing and compares that to the most recent snapshot. If they’re different, it updates. This way you would always have up-to-date snapshots without having to do it manually. This would, of course, be an option. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/auto-snapshots/358)._