Hundreds of snippets? What are you doing with them, if it is not a secret? :)
No, when the snippets were created there was no idea of their management or of their content (from the web interface). Clearly, this is something we should put on the roadmap.
Actually I have been playing with booktype for learning purpose.
While playing with snippets, I attached an image for test only to see how it would look, that's why I wanted to remove it because it was slowing down everything.
But it is no big deal! I have my backup before I created that.