Speaking personally, I felt immediately at home with auto-save/versioning, apart from a couple of times quitting with an unsaved document and being concerned that I wasn't prompted to save.
I guess I didn't manually create versions of documents, relying instead on Time Machine backups. Like you posited, I only created a copy when the new one was going to be quite a different document, using the old one as a starting point, and Duplicate fits right in there. On 27 Oct 2011, at 01:38, Ashley Aitken <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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 _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
