Well, I don't think it's an awful mess but it is confusing if you're not expecting it. The thing is that the fallback of recalling the previous version of your document now exists from Lion onwards. However, I think that it could still work in the old way without contradicting Apple's new ideas on document storage and saving, so probably a good idea to write to them via feedback ( http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html ) and ask them to change it and make it configurable behaviour! Remember, they did exactly that when people complained about the functionality change over the translucent menu bar on the Mac and the rotation lock / sound mute switch on the iPad. :)
Switchers have many things to adjust to and that's not a reason for not implementing a new way of handling files. My partner has just 'seen the light' and bought a MacBook Air and still has real trouble remembering that when you close a window it usually doesn't close the application and he keeps telling me it's no longer running. I say that there's no light under its icon in the dock and he replies "But I've closed all its windows". There's also the matter of a single menu bar instead of Windows' one for every window, and the return key edits a file's name and doesn't open the document and backspace doesn't delete things the way it does on Windows. File handling doesn't have to be just the same on a Mac as on Windows in my humble view, not if there's a better way of doing it (I'd agree though that the Save As behaviour does seem a little gratuitous). Ah well ... Stephen On 7 Aug 2012, at 14:44, mac98aop <[email protected]> wrote: > Err, that's something of an 'awful mess.' > > If previously I've edited a file, and halfway through thought "ah, this is > best as a new document altogether, so I'll Save As.... " then that was that, > with a nice new name and location. The original file remained as it was when > I first opened it, BEFORE all edits. > > NOW, with the new Save As... you don't get that at all. > > That makes for quite a nasty shock when you open the original and find it has > all the changes you made and THOUGHT you'd 'Saved As' something else! > > No? > > I just think to bring back the old command, but with new functionality, is > odd, and not like Apple. > > I mean, for switchers, they're used to seeing Save As... in Word for Windows. > > They'll get quite a shock on their new Mac when they realise that the same > command does something quite different. > > New... Open... Exit... they're pretty universal now across platform. > > I just think the new Apple take on Save As... is a confusing one. > > That's all! “The people of Britain need to be reminded that bread is not just a way to keep your fingers dry when eating a sandwich.” - Andrew Wheeler, Eat Britain: 101 Great British Tastes "Political language - and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give the appearance of solidity to pure wind." - George Orwell -- 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.
