Revision mode not showing deletions

[drmajorbob]

@mrobbins

Am I doing something wrong?

No. Snapshots are not all they’re cracked up to be IMHO:

Snapshots after merging

Another reason I don’t sing the praises of the snapshot feature (or use it). When I want to make major edits to a chapter, I duplicate the chapter (one step for the folder, its children, and attached metadata). I can give the original a distinctive name, mark it not to compile, split the Editor and view it side-by-side (or up-down) with the new version, etc. Snapshots don’t preserve children or any metadata, two of Scrivener’s most important features.

Snapshots after merging

Thanks, Vincent_Vincent for investigating. I was not using any of the auto-snapshot features. Timestamps wouldn’t have been a factor – and I would think that Scrivener is capable of indexing distinct snaps even when they are presented to us in a list with the same name and timestamp. These were all manual snapshots I made ahead of a series of document merges. I had even tested before, to confirm that it would work as expected. Notes and Synopses, too. Those two seem ok. But I had not tested f…