On May 01, 2021, at 05:32, Omar KN <[email protected]> wrote: > My intention is only to work on & edit the myfile.html on the local drive. > Then I upload with CTRL - CMD - S. > > However, BBEdit has by now opened 3 files of myfile.html from the server. > They are probably the same file. (I clicked on one and all 3 were gone, > thankfully :-) > > So it happens I’m updating something on the file and can’t find the edit, > because the edit happened in one of the server files. > > How does BBEdit handle the different file versions: on local drive/ on the > server? >
In this case, BBEdit is doing what you've told it to do. :-) The shortcut of Command-Control-S corresponds to the 'Save to FTP/SFTP Server...' command, which will cause BBEdit to a) save the current file to the specified remote server and then b) to keep working with that file _on the remote server_. If you instead wish to keep your edits local and only save changes to the server at specific points, you can instead use the 'Save a Copy to FTP/SFTP Server...' command (with default shortcut of Command-Option-Control-S) which as its name indicates, will _save a copy_ of the active file to the remote server but leave the original where it is. [PS: For complete details on working with remote files, please see the section titled "Accessing FTP/SFTP Servers" in Chapter 3 of the included PDF manual, which also contains a great deal of useful info about all of BBEdit's other workings. ;-) You can access the manual at any time by choosing Help -> User Manual.] Regards, Patrick Woolsey == Bare Bones Software, Inc. <https://www.barebones.com/> -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or need technical support, please email "[email protected]" 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/DA77E080-E0DB-4D43-A3AF-D07D3D2ACDD5%40barebones.com.
