A file chooser will be brought up where you can select the name and directory of the snapshot file to be written. The standard extension of JProfiler's snapshot files is *.jps. Once JProfiler has finished writing the snapshot to disk, a message box informs you that the snapshot was saved.

• by selecting Session->Open snapshot from JProfiler's main menu.
• by selecting a file from the "Open snapshot" tab in JProfiler's start center.

After a snapshot has been loaded, the functionality of all views is identical to a live profiling session with the exception of the heap walker view: The heap walker overview will be shown if a heap snapshot was taken at the time of saving, otherwise the heap walker will be unavailable.

The status bar indicates that a snapshot is being viewed by displaying the message  Snapshot in its rightmost compartment.