Fazil, The file menu changes depending on a system setting. Please go into: System Settings General.
About 2/3 down the window is a category called: when opening documents The first item in this category is: Ask to keep changes when closing documents If this button is not checked, then your Mac will save your document every few minutes and you will have items under the file menu like: Duplicate, Rename Move to… and Revert. In this mode every ten minutes, your document is saved, and if you really mess up you can go to the revert menu and put it back to what it had been. The duplicate is just a modification of Save As. Though I can never remember then if I am editing the new file name or the old one, note that since the Mac is automatically saving, when you do a duplicate both copies of the file will have your latest changes. So, if you want to change a file and keep the original you should do the duplicate command before making any changes. Now back to that checkbox in system settings… If you check this box, then command-shift-S will do a traditional save as instead of a duplicate. You will probably have to logout or at least quit open applications if you make this change. To add a little to the confusion, some applications like Most of Microsoft Office, do not use the Apple automatic save functionality, so in these applications, there is no revert ability and even when that checkbox is unchecked you will find a save as in the file menu. Hopefully I explained this clearly, Jonathan Cohn > On Feb 1, 2021, at 18:58, Fazil <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks much, Jonathan. > Does Mac give you a save as option or save option only? > When I hit command-s after typing my note, it just saved. > That is the only file that I have saved so far in Mac and I did not get a > location option. > Thanks! > > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On > Behalf Of Jonathan Cohn > Sent: Monday, February 01, 2021 3:38 PM > To: macvisionaries <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Default location of TextEdit to save files? > > Hello, > I believe the default is to save in your iCloud/TextEdit folder, but once > changed it should stay in the new place. Also note that Apple Applications > default to saving without an explicit save, for example right now I have > about 5 untitled txt files in my TextEdit folder. If you need more details on > this feature, I can probably pul up an article. > > Best wishes, > > Jonathan Cohn > > > > >> On Feb 1, 2021, at 15:07, Fazil <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> >> Hi, Group. >> May I know Where does Text Edit offer to save files by default? >> Thanks! >> >> >> >> -- >> The following information is important for all members of the Mac >> Visionaries list. >> >> If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if >> you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or >> moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. >> >> Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. 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