Editing Snapshot detail info

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bw38
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Editing Snapshot detail info

Post by bw38 »

Hoping someone can helping me out here. I tried searching, but can't find much info on this particular question.

I've started using snapshots and it works pretty good. Saves me a lot of time in my work so that I don't have to go start back from scratch. I tried to keep detailed information in the snapshot details because ultimately it's the only way to keep track of the work I'm doing. However, occasionally I realize (after the fact) that the details I've put into snapshot may be missing some additional information. And I can't seem to edit/add more info to the details of that snapshot.

Is there any way to edit the snapshot detail information so that additional information is reflected? I don't necessary want to change the snapshot itself, just the title/details information.

Any help is much appreciated.
bw38
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Re: Editing Snapshot detail info

Post by bw38 »

I figured out how to do it.
So I'm using Vbox 4.0.4.
I had to edit the vbox file located under C:\Users\myaccount\Virtualbox VMs\NameofmyVM\
I open that file in NotePad and then search for the corresponding text of the snapshot where I wish to edit information for.

I made sure to do a backup of the .vbox file though before proceeding just to make sure I could revert back in case I screwed something up. Pretty straight forward from there. Would be nice if this type of information was easily editable from within the program.
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Re: Editing Snapshot detail info

Post by Perryg »

Would be nice if this type of information was easily editable from within the program.
It is. Right click the snapshot in the VBox main GUI and left click show details. It editable from there.
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