id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc	guest	host
5663	Manual section 5>Differencing images>1 Snapshots>C thrown away needs clarification	Mark Cranness	umoeller	"The manual says this about Restore Snapshot:
  The differencing images holding all the write operations since __the snapshot__ was taken are thrown away, and the original parent images are made active again. (If you restored the ""root"" snapshot, then this will be the root disk images; otherwise, some other differencing image descended from it.) This effectively restores the old machine state.

This is true when deleting the 'Current' snapshot, namely the '''bolded''' immediate parent of the 'Current State'.

However, this is ambigious and unclear when deleting any other snapshot, because the term '__the snapshot__' is ambigious.  The user might think that __the snapshot__ refers to the snapshot being restored (it does not) and that the entire child tree under it will be thrown away (it will not).

Instead, how about:
  The differencing images associated with the current machine state are thrown away, and..."	defect	closed	documentation	VirtualBox 3.1.0	fixed	manual snapshot differencing delete		other	other