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 for a parent-child issue. Not a problem. They were just cautionary backups, and I’d already done a project bak.
Drmajorbob, I take a similar approach with using document Notes. Notes are a great feature in concept, but I find them not quite worth it as they are implemented through the inspector panel. I prefer to keep notes and similar adjunct files in a separate child doc, and view them in a separate full editor. And opening and closing the inspector can be too disruptive to editor scroll positions – as can opening/closing a second editor, but at least an editor is a fully functional window. Might be different were I using a second monitor. Or if the inspector floated.
Also, Notes don’t zoom, leaving text too large in the narrow panel. Also, when I make the scratchpad font readable, it makes the Notes font huge. As I understand it, Scratchpad and Notes share font settings, but one or the other of them is either too large or too small.