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Open Captures Tray Tips
Helpful Information Displayed in the Tray
The Tray displays the following information about your capture or a saved media file.
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How Long do Captures Remain in the Tray?
By default, captures and media files remain in the Tray until you accrue 25 captures. Then, as you continue to gather new captures, the older ones begin to drop out of view. However, these captures are not deleted. To view unsaved captures or saved files, click Snagit Editor > Search Pane > Tags tab > Recent captures. The media files appear in the Library as you move through the search results.
The following captures or media files never drop out of view:
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Customize the Open Captures Tray
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The number of captures and media files stored in the Tray and the duration of how long they remain in the Tray is based on the following setting in the Advanced Settings screen.
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The default setting is More often. This setting stores 25 capture or media files before they begin to drop out of view after about one hour.
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The Less Often setting stores 100 captures or media files before they begin to drop out of view after about one week.
Enable the Remove all items from the Tray when closing Editor option to remove captures or media files from the Tray each time you close Editor,
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Do I Need to Save the Captures in the Tray?
When capturing, the Tray automatically stores the captures. Captures with annotations or edits do not need to be saved when exiting Editor. Just close Editor and when you reopen, the captures will be just like you left them.
The Tray may also contain media files that have been opened via the Snagit Button > Open option or from the Library. If you modify these files, you must save or the discard the changes before you can close Editor. Modified files appear with a starburst on the thumbnail. Once the changes are saved, the starburst is removed.
When Should I Save Captures In the Tray?
If you need to access the capture outside of Editor, you need to save the file. For example, to insert a graphic as a link using Microsoft Word, you need to save the capture as a file.
Drag from the Tray into an Open Capture or Image File
Combine captures or image files by dragging a thumbnail from the Tray onto an open capture or file.
Open the capture or file that you want to add the capture to. Then:
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Click and drag the thumbnail to include onto the canvas and drop it there. It is now a vector object.
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Resize the Tray
Drag the divider between the Tray and the canvas.
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Copy a Capture or Media File to the Clipboard
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Click Copy. The entire capture or media file is copied to the Clipboard.
Close a Capture or Media File
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Click Close.
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Click the Close icon in the corner of a thumbnail.
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View a Capture or Media File
Double-click a thumbnail to view the full size capture or media file.
Change the Thumbnail Display Size
Right-click a thumbnail and select > Thumbnail size > Small, Medium, or Large.
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Delete a Capture or Media File
Delete permanently deletes a saved file or a stored capture. You cannot open deleted captures and files at a later time.
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Right-click a thumbnail > Delete. You are prompted to confirm the delete action.
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Click Yes to delete.
View a Snapshot of the Captures in the Tray
Click the Quick View button to see a snapshot view of all the media content in the Tray.
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Click on a thumbnail in the Quick View box to view one of the media files.

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