# Does \`overwrite\_figure=true\` have any effect in notebook using Plots/GR?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/does-overwrite-figure-true-have-any-effect-in-notebook-using-plots-gr/11458>\
**Category:** Visualization\
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**Created:** [June 6, 2018, 12:49am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/does-overwrite-figure-true-have-any-effect-in-notebook-using-plots-gr/11458 "2018-06-06T00:49:00Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 12:49am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/does-overwrite-figure-true-have-any-effect-in-notebook-using-plots-gr/11458/1 "2018-06-06T00:49:01Z")

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I read somewhere that if I set the Plots attribute `overwrite_figure=true`, the previous plot would not visibly erase (and the Jupyter notebook cell output would remain in position) so that I could get an animation-like effect **without** preparing a GIF stack. It doesn’t seem to be working for me, on Julia 0.6.2 running the notebook in Safari on macOS 10.12.6. I’m using the GR backend.

Any suggestions?