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title = "Saving a snapshot"
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A _snapshot_ is a representation of the current state of a session. In a
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nutshell, it's like versioning your project by giving every version a
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meaningful, descriptive name. Even though it's not really exposed to users,
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every session always has at least one snapshot which is whatever you have
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there at the moment.
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Let's say you recorded a song in your home studio and you are trying different
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arrangements to see which one works best. Instead of creating multiple sessions
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and copying files between them, you can make snapshots every time you think you
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have something worth preserving. At any point in time, you can save the current
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state of the session and switch to an earlier snapshot to compare your
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arrangements.
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## Saving a Snapshot
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Ardour provides two commands in the _Session_ menu to create a snapshot:
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**Snapshot (& keep working on current version)**
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: You will create a new snapshot and continue working on the original version.
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Any new saves will overwrite the current state of the project, the newly
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created snapshot will not be affected. Mental model: "I think I'm about to
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change things in a major way, so I need a backup if everything goes sideways
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with my experiment".
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**Snapshot (& switch to new version)**
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: You will create a new snapshot and switch to working on that version. Any new
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saves you do will affect the new snapshot until you switch to the original
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snapshot. Mental model: "This is actually quite interesting, let's explore this
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idea further and get back to the previous one if this turns out to be a dead
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end".
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By default the program will name the new snapshot according to the current date
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and timestamp of your system. If you wish, you can change the name to one that
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more meaningfully corresponds to the session you are working on.
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## Recalling Snapshots
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You can recall a saved snapshot via the _Snapshots_ tab in the area on the
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right:
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There you see a few snapshots that we created, and the _my\_session_ entry
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represents the original state of our session.
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Click on any snapshot from the list to reload it.
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## Continuing
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Sometimes it is helpful to have a default starting point for new sessions, for
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example, for a setup that you use all the time when starting a new project. To
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learn how to do this, please continue to the next section called _Saving a
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Template_.
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Next: [SAVING A TEMPLATE](../saving-a-template)
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