I use Shotcut 24.11.17 at MacOS Sequoia. Use Shotcut with Linux too and there I can’t see this behavior.
When I have maybe three clips in my timeline and one of them is a very short clip (only few frames), I have massive issues with the snapping-tool.
When I want to snap the third video at the very short one, it snaps over this very short clip (only a few frames) directly to the clip before and deletes the short clip. Sometimes this happens when the videos are already in place only by clicking at the third clip (when I want to use a filter or something else).
Why this function deletes parts of my video automatically? Why the third video doesn’t snap at the small one, but the snapping-tool insits to snap to the longer one and delete the short clip?
This is very annoying, because when I don’t mention that this happens, and this happens very often, my complete video is out of sync and I can start at the beginning.
I do not reproduce it, but a reason it might be different between macOS and Linux for you is the display scale in System Preferences. You might need to zoom in on the timeline as well to increase precision. And I do not understand what you mean by deleting because Snapping is a positioning thing. You did not provide adequate steps. It sounds like you are moving a clip, but I am not sure. How exactly are you moving? Maybe you have ripple and ripple all tracks turned on.
That’s the problem! It should be a positioning thing, but it snaps to the wrong position and it delets the short clip. That happens when I move clips but it also happens sometimes when I only “touch” the clip after the short clip. Than the clip after the short clip snaps to the clip before the short one and the short one is gone. It happens with ripple is turned on and with rippled is turned out.
Ah, you mean you’re dragging the handle and it snaps further than you want to?
You can press and hold Alt to temporarrily ignore snapping and do small corrections. Or you can disable it with the magnet icon on the timeline.