# Resuming recovery

What happened, what it means, and what to do next.

- [All support guides](/snapattic/support/)
- [Snapattic home](/snapattic/)

Snapattic saves your progress as it goes, so you can stop and resume any time — across sleep,
network drops, the daily limit, or quitting the app.

## How to resume

- With a matching usable Keychain credential, reopen Snapattic and choose **Continue recovery** once.
- If the prior App Password was session-only or Keychain cannot use it, Snapattic opens
  **Reconnect to resume** for the known mailbox. Complete that provider's app-password or Microsoft
  OAuth access again; first-run setup education is not repeated.

Recovery picks up from the last saved checkpoint.

## What "resume" guarantees
- **No duplicates.** Photos already recovered are recognized by their content and skipped, so
  resuming never saves the same photo twice.
- **Continues from your last checkpoint.** If recovery was interrupted mid-message, resume may
  re-check that one message — but already-saved photos are skipped, so you never get duplicates.
- **Your mail is never touched.** Recovery is read-only: it never modifies, moves, flags, or
  deletes anything in your inbox.

## When you might need to resume
- The connection dropped — resume when you are back online. See [Network](./network.md).
- The daily download limit was reached — resume the next day. See [Daily limit](./daily-limit.md).
- Your computer slept or you quit the app — just reopen and resume.

## Large archives
Big inboxes can take more than one session (and more than one day) to finish. That is expected;
see [Long recovery duration](./long-scan-duration.md).