On 27/10/2011, at 4:41 AM, Kevin Callahan wrote:
> My wife is beating me up here with her frustration using Pages and > auto-saving/versioning. I can feel the pain for your wife (and I am feeling the pain myself). Lion is a very different way of doing saving/versioning files and I am not sure Apple has got it exactly right yet but I think it is going to be a better way. I am one of the people who always manually versioned files (made a duplicate and then renamed). With Lion, hopefully, this is not going to be necessary any more. > She's making a lot of minute changes to a layout but found it frustrating she > couldn't go back to her last saved document. > Instead, she has to navigate the version history. By last saved version I take it she may mean the last "Save a Version" not the last version that was saved before she "Quit" the application the last time she was working on the document. In the future, like iOS, I suspect Mac apps won't even have a "Quit" menu action. That said, I do think Apple could help here. They should have a way to "Revert to last saved version" or something like that. What I mean here is to revert to the last explicitly saved version. In the future, I think Apple could even allow one to name "saved versions". For example, "Version submitted for printing" or "Version before major changes" The "Revert to ..." menu could then allow you to easily choose one of these "named versions". The entire version history would be used for an overview or picking a non-named version. > She also wants "Save As..." > She's not happy with "Duplicate" - since she can't provide a new name. By > default, you get a "<filename> copy". As you noted in a later post, the first time you save a duplicate you get the chance to rename it. This could be used for saving explicit (named) versions of the original document but I think that approach moves away from the whole idea of versioning a single documnt in Lion. I think a duplicate is meant to be the start of another document. > I'm trying to defend Lion here, but failing. > > We haven't found a way to disable auto-save in Pages. I wouldn't do that, I would suggest trying to get used to the current approach. In the long term, perhaps with some tweaks I think it will be a lot better than the old way. Hope that helps. Cheers, Ashley. -- Ashley Aitken Perth, Western Australia mrhatken at mac dot com Skype Name: MrHatken (GMT + 8 Hours!) _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
