What is Snapshotter?

Snapshotter is a small utility that saves icons positions on the desktop and lets you reset them in place.

With the introduction of the multi-scan monitors and Display Manager it is possible to change the desktop area. This was especially useful on my PowerBook Duo (now retired) where I could get thousands of colours if I reduced the screen size. Unfortunatey it has the nasty side effect of scrambling the neat arrangement of the icons on the desktop. Scriptable Finder goes some way to fixing that problem but it's not perfect.

Snapshotter is the solution to this problem. It allows you to take a snapshot of a folder and, at a later date, restore the position of the icons within the folder from the snapshot. Snapshotter is also useful for when you accidentally select "Clean Up" on the desktop.

How to Use

When you drop a folder on Snapshotter, it creates a snapshot file that records the positions of all the icons within the folder. When you drop that snapshot file on Snapshotter, it restores the icons positions by scripting the Finder. It obviously can only restore the positions of the icons that were present when the snapshot was taken.

If you just double click the Snapshotter application it creates a snapshot of the desktop in the root of the system disk.

If you drop a disk on to Snapshotter it puts a snapshot of the root directory on the desktop of the system disk.

 

Download Snapshotter for Mac

Architecture

Motorola 68K

System Requirements

From Mac OS 7.5 up to Mac OS 9.2

Compatibility notes

Architecture: 68K

Mac OS 7.5 - Mac OS 9.2.2

 

Emulating this? It could probably run under: Basilisk II