On 2016-07-28 20:44, I wrote to PT Supporters under subject “Recover text from Paratext online repository?”:
If I were looking for chapters in previous points in the Project History, I wouldn’t restore to each point. Instead I’d use the Compare Texts… feature, which allows you to view any point in the history.
So, you can use Compare Texts to view the text as it was at any particular point in the Project History. But it’s harder to do other things with a previous version of the texts, such as:
Print
Print Draft
Save as RTF
Export to Pathway
You could restore to the point you want, and then restore back to the current version after exporting/saving, but that creates a mess in the Project History – I commented in the same posting as above:
If you want to view a previous point by restoring to that point, you’re then likely to undo that restore. That’s two more points in the history, and if you do it repeatedly, you end up with a very complex history!
Despite that, I think I have seen others recommend the “double-restore” as a way to work with a previous version of a project.
But personally, I wish there was an easy way to do all operations that you are able to do on the current text, on a previous version. Worth a Feature Request?