WriteItNow 4 Snapshots

WriteItNow can save a snapshot or revision of your story each time you save it.  

If necessary you can restore your story from any of these snapshots.

Setting Snapshot Details

Go to the 'Settings' menu, choose 'Tool Settings' and then 'Auto Save Settings'


Set when you want Auto Save to occur and the maximum number of snapshots you want to keep.

Each time WriteItNow saves it makes a copy or snapshot. If, for example, you set the maximum number of snapshots to keep to 20, then WriteItNow will keep up to 20 snapshots. It will delete older snapshots.

Restoring A Story From a Snapshot

This shows 10 snapshots. The newest is snapshot 1 and the oldest is snapshot 10. Click on any snapshot and the following is shown:



If you click on 'Yes' the current story is replaced by the selected snapshot.

Backing Up

Even if you have 100's of snapshots on your hard drive and no back ups and your hard drive fails then you may lose everything.

Always make regular Back Ups!

Some Typical Examples

You could keep hundreds of snapshots but this may be impractical. Assuming a typical novel length story is about 250k. Then in a GB of disk space you can save roughly 4,000 snapshots. This is many more snapshots than you need.

If you set the software to Auto Save every half hour and write for 8 hours a day for five days a week then you'll have roughly 4,000 snapshots in a year. The good news is that you could then go back to any version of your novel that you've written at any half hour point over the past year.

Realistically you won't need so many snapshots. A better plan is to set the Auto Save to save every half hour and to keep 100 snapshots. You could then restore from any snapshot created for the last week or so. If you also back up your stories regularly then you can get any snapshot of your novel.

On Windows XP use a tool like CD Burner XP for backups. This can be found here.