# Every new snippet makes de snippet plugin/library unavailable and/or destroys it
**URL:** https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/every-new-snippet-makes-de-snippet-plugin-library-unavailable-and-or-destroys-it/3226
**Category:** General
**Created:** [August 3, 2019, 4:43pm UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/every-new-snippet-makes-de-snippet-plugin-library-unavailable-and-or-destroys-it/3226 "2019-08-03T16:43:23Z")
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### Author:  [@cifra](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/cifra)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2019, 4:43pm UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/every-new-snippet-makes-de-snippet-plugin-library-unavailable-and-or-destroys-it/3226/1 "2019-08-03T16:43:23Z")
So here’s the thing: I created a PG project called CanvasSnippets. Canvas is a multi page template and I’m making my own collection of snippets.
So, when I open one template page to save a snippet out of it, I go to `Page -> Manage Libraries & Plugins` (I’ve also tried using `File -> Manage Libraries & Plugins`), I load and activate my CanvasSnippets.js and my blocks load in the components panel.
I add a few snippets, rename them… and open the next template page. Now, those snippets are gone. I check with `Page -> Manage Libraries & Plugins`, it’s listed there but not active. So I go to activate it and I get something like “This thing is already activate it, you have to disable it first”.
Then, I go to `File -> Manage Libraries & Plugins` and it’s there activated! But still disappeared from the components panel. So I deactivate and activate again. No errors but still not showing there.
I close the whole project and start again. Now it works. I do a couple snippets and again with the same issue 😡
Worst of all, this time, I go to check on that \*.js where the snippets are and they are all gone. There’s only this skeleton:
```
$(function() {
//Wait for Pinegrow to wake-up
$("body").one("pinegrow-ready", function(e, pinegrow) {
//Create new Pinegrow framework object
var f = new PgFramework("CanvasSnippets", "CanvasSnippets");
//This will prevent activating multiple versions of this framework being loaded
f.type = "CanvasSnippets";
f.allow_single_type = true;
f.user_lib = true
//Tell Pinegrow about the framework
pinegrow.addFramework(f);
var section = new PgFrameworkLibSection("CanvasSnippets_lib", "Components");
//Pass components in array
section.setComponentTypes([]);
f.addLibSection(section);
});
});
```
Here’s when I realize I can’t trust PG with any file, so thank god I had GIT working from the get go.
So, **1)** the library disappearing every time I open a new page is so frustrating, am I at fault here?. **2)** PG will just eat hours of snippetting for no apparent reason.
Help?
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### Author:  [@matjaz](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/matjaz)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2019, 4:09am UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/every-new-snippet-makes-de-snippet-plugin-library-unavailable-and-or-destroys-it/3226/2 "2019-08-04T04:09:33Z")
Hi @cifra, sorry to hear about that. We’re investigating the issue. So far I was not able to replicate it. Does it happen every time you do those steps?
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### Author:  [@cifra](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/cifra)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2019, 8:48am UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/every-new-snippet-makes-de-snippet-plugin-library-unavailable-and-or-destroys-it/3226/3 "2019-08-04T08:48:53Z")
Giving I was confused between components, resources, and libraries (and have the option of loading a project as a library or as a plugin), I salvaged the last good version of the snippets \*.js file from git and started the everything else from scratch.
There are still some inconsistencies. For example, the first time I start creating snippets, it says “Snippets” on the components bar, which makes sense. But later on, I load it as a plugin to keep adding bits of HTML; then it shows as “Components.”
Now it works almost like expected. I think I opened a different thread for the issue of hovering over the snippet and seeing a rendered image that’s just HTML. So it looks all ugly and without layout.
I am looking forward to a better PG with better docs.
Thank you