I see that option but then I still have to name each file and press save on each one. I really just want to save them all with their "untitled text xxxx" as the filename in one operation and not have to confirm the filename on each document. Otherwise this could take several hours.
It's a clipboard, I'll copy a column out of excel, paste it in, run a regex, and paste it back, several times a day. Or, I'll take a forum post, and instead of typing it in on the website (and risk losing it due to an errant click or back button) I'll write it in BBEdit and paste it in when I'm done, etc, etc (I am doing this, right now). Or it could be a confirmation code someone gave me over the phone, or a password (I know, I know, I am not as security obsessed as thou). Especially because I know BBEdit won't lose any of these snippets, I just go about my life and don't take the time to sit here and decide, yes, this should be saved and this shouldn't. Maybe my life is just too busy, maybe I'm just lazy, maybe a little bit of both. But now I'd really just like to be able to start BBEdit without waiting 20 minutes and I also don't want to lose all of these snippets, some of them might be important one day. I'm a digital hoarder. On Monday, March 29, 2021 at 11:24:14 AM UTC-4 Bruce Linde wrote: > first off, why wouldn’t you save them? > > second, hold the option key while viewing the file menu… you’ll see ’save > all’ 😇 > > > > > > > On Mar 29, 2021, at 8:20 AM, Steve Weiss <st...@wgacany.com> wrote: > > I use BBEdit as my general purpose clipboard and I've amassed over a > thousand unsaved documents, which I still will refer back to even years > after they were created. Every time BBEdit restarts those unsaved files > are still there. They never go away. I don't close them all because I > want to retain the information within them, but, lately it's become a > problem because at startup BBEdit will load this 1K files, some of which > contain hundreds of MB of data. This then slows down my computer, slows > down BBEdit, and generally just makes life harder. > > What I would like to do, is take all of these unsaved, untitled documents > and save them all out to a folder so that I can just grep through them > without having to use the Find feature in BBEdit - and then close all of > the documents so I don't have to keep reopening all of them. > > How can I do this without having to press save on every single file > individually? I've seen applescripts but they all seem to assume the files > have already been saved once. > > Thanks for any advice! > > <RSImage.png> <https://rs3.wgacany.com/rs/a0KbbovC> > > Steve Weiss | CTO > 347-308-5377 <(347)%20308-5377> | st...@wgacany.com > 812 Jersey Ave, 8th Fl, Jersey City, NJ 07310 > > > -- > This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature > request or need technical support, please email "sup...@barebones.com" > rather than posting here. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: < > https://twitter.com/bbedit> > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BBEdit Talk" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to bbedit+un...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/645a86a2-a024-4c12-8876-60388030fc16n%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/645a86a2-a024-4c12-8876-60388030fc16n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > > > > > > bruce linde > 5 happiness webmaster (four more than the competition!) > http://www.5happy.com/ > http://clockhappy.com/ > 510.530.1331 <(510)%20530-1331> office > 510.206.9730 <(510)%20206-9730> mobile > > (shift key available upon request) > > > > > > > > > -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or need technical support, please email "supp...@barebones.com" rather than posting here. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <https://twitter.com/bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/38d834b7-cc21-4369-9ef6-9d21c057c2c9n%40googlegroups.com.
