That's good info, but IMHO the whole business of removing "Save As..." and forcing the user to make a duplicate and rename it (or use Time Machine) in order to secure a particular revision of a document so as to allow rollback, is clunky. I think Apple wanted the saving to work the way it does in iOS (and for that matter, the way it did in HyperCard), but I can't imagine someone preparing a meaty document finding the current functionality easy to understand. The LiveCode IDE still has "Save As..." and long may it continue, say I.
I have often been caught when writing say a Pages document (this goes back to before Mavericks) to find a tentative revision on my part (just to see if a page design looks good for example) has been autosaved and has thus zapped my original. Maybe I am slowing at learning new tricks - certainly I am a pretty old dog. Graham Does anyone love the current Apple On 23 Jan 2014, at 11:02, Björnke von Gierke <[email protected]> wrote: > Go to System Preferences, and select the General tab. Slightly bellow the > middle, there's a checkmark saying "ask to keep changes when closing > documents". Unselect it. Make sure to restart applications now, and then the > new behaviour should immediately show up. > > For example in text edit, documents should show a grey "– edited" after their > name, but not the red dot thingy. You can still force a save, which will > include a milestone-type of save (some are also created automatically, > usually when a document is closed), you can browse trough the revisions in > time machine, even if you have no backup hard disk connected. > > On 23.01.2014, at 02:49, Kay C Lan <[email protected]> wrote: > >> As this is the largest community of Mac users I know please forgive me for >> asking this off topic question here. >> >> I'm on 10.9.1 MBP 15" Retina, I have the latest versions of TextEdit 1.9 >> (310) and Pages 5.0.1 (1478) >> >> I recently purchased OS X Mavericks - The Missing Manual as I find these >> Missing Manuals have a wealth of little tidbits which help maximise your >> use of what ever program. >> >> It states in this book that Apple programs such as TextEdit, Pages all Auto >> Save whenever you stop typing or pause your workflow. You can even Quit >> these applications and all your work is saved and available when you reopen >> the document - the inference is that you are not presented with any type of >> dialog box when you Quit because the document is already saved. Also, >> because of all of this, the convention of changing the Red traffic light >> icon at the top left of the widow, to show a black dot in it - indicating >> you have unsaved changes, no longer happens. >> >> Well, that's not what I'm experiencing. >> >> I open a TextEdit or Pages document and as soon as I make changes the Red >> Traffic Light icon changes to include a black dot in the the middle. I can >> leave it for 10-15 min and nothing changes, there is no Auto Save, and if I >> Quit the program I'm asked if I want to Revert, Cancel or Save. >> >> To me, absolutely nothing has changed in this regard. >> >> Is anyone else seeing this or are you all as per the book? >> >> I'm thinking of submitting an errata but thought I'd better check first >> that somehow by the grace of God I happen to be the only one that has >> Mavericks behaving exactly how I expect OS X to behave. >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> [email protected] >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription >> preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > -- > > Use an alternative Dictionary viewer: > http://bjoernke.com/bvgdocu/ > > Chat with other RunRev developers: > http://bjoernke.com/chatrev/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
