Hi Gary, comments in situ below
> On 23 Jan 2015, at 11:33 am, garydorn <[email protected]> wrote: > > A question I hope others may be able to explain; > > 10.6.8 has in file menu - save, save as, export ( depending on Application) > > 10.7.5 has , duplicate, make a copy , export > > whats the difference in these actions? "Save As" has simply become "Duplicate" Duplicate is better than the old system. And so is Revert To Saved, which works way better than the old Quit and then answer "No" to "Do you want so save your changes?". You get the same functionality with basically the same number of keystrokes overall, but you get a LOT more flexibility and a lot more safety net under you with the new system. For example, if you make some changes, then decide you don't want them and you Revert To Saved, then Quit, the document will look just like it was before your changes. Drag-n-drop it, attach it to an email, it is unchanged. BUT you can actually retrieve the changes in the revision history if you later decide you want to look at them, or copy some of them, or actually use that version. A LOT more flexible, unless you're worried about subpoena's and want no evidence you ever thought of making any changes. (In which case, you should be worried about temp files and all kinds of other issues.) A new feature of OS X Lion <http://tuaw.com/tag/lion> is Auto Save, which is going to stop a lot of Mac users from doing the Command-S twitch. Versions is another related feature that keeps copies of different versions of your documents for posterity. Auto Save takes a snapshot of whatever you happen to have open on the screen in an app at any particular time, and saves it for you. Let's say that you have TextEdit open with three different documents, all scattered about on your 27" display. None of the documents have been saved, and you suddenly realize that you need to leave for a meeting. You quit out of TextEdit, and the familiar "Do you want to save the changes you made in...?" dialog doesn't appear. No problem. The next time you launch TextEdit, all three of those documents open up in the exact same locations on your screen that they were in originally. Use File > Save just once: When you do decide to save a new document, to give it a title and location on disk, use the File > Save menu item. Afterwards, the File > Save menu item won’t appear for this document. (Instead, you’ll see File > Save a Version Work in a duplicate: If you’re about to do something in a document that might prove disastrous (such as a global Find-and- Replace), choose File > Duplicate to get a new, unsaved document whose contents are identical to the current state of the original document. Export is self explanatory - if you wish to export your document, or print to PDF > do any these Lion actions have the same function as in 10.6.8? > > I'm having trouble in working out which to use in Pages, and Preview , for > documents whereby I want to make changes and then Save As. Auto Save will automatically save your changes (as explained above). Cheers, Ronni 13-inch MacBook Air (April 2014) 1.7GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost to 3.3GHz 8GB 1600MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM 512GB PCIe-based Flash Storage OS X Yosemite 10.10.1
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