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I've been using timesnapper on Windows. It will capture a screen shot and timeline it based on title/program text. For years. The time portal aspect is fascinating, and ultimately useless.

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Fellow TimeSnapper user. I combine it with a script that collapses it to a daily archive video. 4kx2 monitor setup, at 5 second intervals, have also been saving things for >5 years now.

It feels like a superpower sometimes... Reviewing the exact research steps of projects from years ago based on a timestamp from browser history, digging up an archaic screenshot of just the right configuration screen based on a file modification date, etc.

Sorry you find it useless...

This looks interesting but my antivirus didn't like it as it detected "SWF.Exploit.Kit.Rig.tht.Talos" when downloaded from https://timesnapper.com/

Founder here… looking into this.

Thank you, I appreciate your time and help! I guess it's a false positive on my side but have emailed details to support

Here's a virus total report on the file. I find virus total useful (as a product developer) because it will help show cases where some smaller scanner is reporting a positive.

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/url/718fe790bb2c1d97428199830...

tl/dr -- virus total is happy with the file.

It remains possible that middleware of some sort has altered the file before you accessed it.

You can check the hash of the file like this:

get-filehash ".\TimeSnapperProSetup.exe"

and it should return "B50A4449C9C36871280A842A530EA19694C7CBC4CF55CED5A620D8838D87CA1E" -- the same hash shown in the virus total report.

Thank you for your quick response! I get the same hash, so a false positive it is. I am really excited to test your product, it seems very nice!

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