Steven, does the original document stay as it is or has it mirrored the changes you've made? I understand that the "new" save as changes the file name but doesn't create a duplicate (albeit amended).
http://www.tuaw.com/2012/08/05/mountain-lion-bugs-chopped-battery-life-and-nonsensical-save-a/ I read this yesterday, though not had reason to check it myself yet. Regards Russell ---------------------------------------------------------- Manor Park Medical Centre www.manorparksurgery.com Tel 01323482301 East Sussex Local Medical Committee (Chair) www.sslmcs.co.uk/ Tel 01372389270 GPC rep East & West Sussex @drbrown1970 ---------------------------------------------------------- On 7 August 2012 09:36, <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, in ML TextEdit it works as "Save As ..." did: > > I have a TextEdit document saved on my desktop. > I open it > Choose Save As from the File menu (holding down the option key) > I get a dialog where I choose a destination directory (say Desktop too) > and enter a new name > Click Save > I'm now editing my newly saved variant of my document which is on my > desktop. > > That is the way I would expect it to be - what "awful mess" do you > understand it to be causing? > > I think that, like the reverse scrolling, when you understand what Lion > and even more so, ML are doing with documents, it makes sense. Perhaps it's > time to let go of the way we've been editing and saving documents for > almost 30 years for something perhaps rather better? > > I prefer the new way. > > Cheers, > > Stephen > > > On 6 Aug 2012, at 14:04, mac98aop <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've not upgraded (yet) but it seems the hotly anticipated return of Save > As... to ML has made an awful mess of things? It's returned in name, but > not function?!?! > > Anyone else noticed that it doesn't behave as it did in the good old days? > > ?!?! > > > Heaven is under our feet > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
