I just want to point out a simple use-case that I'm frequently running into, and it makes me really hate autosave-in-place.
I save a file that indicates some state I have earmarked for later investigation, or to send to someone. While I'm preparing some accompanying documentation, say an email that will include the file, I want to take some screenshots of the file in various before and after states. So I go to the document, take the screenshots, make a few changes, take some more screenshots. Switch apps to continue on my other document that uses the screenshots. Next time I go back to the saved file, it's now in the most recent state which is NOT WHAT I SAVED! I made some additional changes that were simply speculative or additional to the saved doc, but thanks to autosave they quickly became permanently saved. Now my file is not in a state useful for sending, I either have to use Versions to revert it, or else I have to remember to make a copy before I do my speculative changes, or remember to undo all my changes all of which require a whole bunch of steps. In the old days, I didn't have to do anything - by NOT SAVING, I knew my extra work wasn't going to change anything on disk. This might sound esoteric, but this is proving to be really, really common. It's not just me - our users are complaining for exactly the same reason - they make a change which they don't expect to "stick" because they deliberately don't save, and yet it does stick. The locking of a document doesn't help because these changes are usually right after the file was saved. Honestly, this really stinks. I'm finding it hard to believe that Apple in their wisdom feel this is actually easier to use than the old way of doing things. I'd be interested to hear others' thoughts on this, surely it's not just me? --Graham _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
