Q: Disable autosave

In Keynote every few minutes I get the error mesage "could not be autosaved because the file was changed by another application". Incredible annoying. No clue why this suddenly startet. It even interrupts my while typing.

Here you aren't speaking to Apple representative but to end users like you.

File a report to Apple thru the feedback channel.

A bug in the application must be reported to Keynote team, not to Lion's one which doesn't work upon this app.

Go to "Provide Keynote Feedback" in the "Keynote" menu, describe precisely what you get.

Then, cross your fingers, and wait at least for the next update ;-)

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) vendredi 2 septembre 2011 19:51:43

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I'd appreciate if you'd dump your super-smartness elsewhere.

It seems that you don't know the way I behave.

I write when I want, where I want, the way I want.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) vendredi 2 septembre 2011 21:38:40

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Auto-save and versioning is really a nonsense. Today I was taking some quick notes on text edit before it crashed and I lost data. Auto-save and versioning didn't prevent data loosing but they keep getting on my workflow. I do appeal again to Apple, please stop treating your costumers as stupid and let them choose. It's a shame I can't delete TextEdit so I would not open it again by accident.

(1) As far as I know, the autosave feature apply if you saved at least once.

If you didn't do that, it's normal that you retrieve nothing but the culprit isn't the app, just you !

(2) Everybody may delete TextEdit :

Run this short script:

--{code}

set p2a to path to applications folder as text

set unix_path to quoted form of POSIX path of (p2a & "TextEdit.app")

do shell script "rm -R " & unix_path with administrator privileges

--{code}

What's a shame is to see wrong statements posted by users which don't know what they are ranting about.

It seems that some are doing their best to prove that Apple made choices matching their customers means.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) dimanche 4 septembre 2011 18:33:13

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To be the AW6 successor, iWork MUST integrate a TRUE DB, not a list organizer !

The culprit it's the app and it's stupid workfow. I used it for years and it worked very well. And I know what I'm ranting about. That's why I stopped using Preview and TextEdit for many tasks (until I opened it by mistake). Both apps have their own workflow and refuse to accept mine. I was complaining that the only time it could have been useful it wasn't. I just finished to write something and before I even have the chance to save the document TextView crashed and didn't recover the file. I know that TextEdit keep opening files I never saved, that where garbage. This time it didn't!

joaomcarvalho wrote:

 

The culprit it's the app and it's stupid workfow. I used it for years and it worked very well. And I know what I'm ranting about.

As it's often the case, I think that it's the one which wrote that "it's stupid workflow" wich deserve the compliment.

You wrote " It's a shame I can't delete TextEdit so I would not open it again by accident." which is wrong !

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) lundi 5 septembre 2011 11:26:42

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What's your problem? Can't I have my opinion? Or must I agree with you so you stop mocking me?

don't worry about him joao- he hangs in here for that purpose and none other. You could always click on the "report abuse" button and do us all a favour

Now now, good people, let's not start a flame war. 

I've found Yvan to be extremely helpful (along with a lot of others, given the amount of points he's acquired) and his scripts have saved my arse several times.

I've been the victim myself of a few hard and unfair comments from others...I put it down to people misreading my intent in a text based forum, especially when using idioms, or just venting general frustration with words like 'stupd' etc that can be misread to those whose first language isn't English.

We could all do with showing a bit more tolerance here, methinks (Yvan included!).

That's the tragedy - Yves knows quite a bit about scripting. But not quite so much about avoiding flaming in discussion forums !

My tolerance with him is used up, many people have asked him in a kind way to slow down and be constructive. What I have experienced from him are angry posts assulting people if they don't praise Apple or his oppinion unqestioned. The most helpful thing he can do is stop posting.

Yes - it must be particularly off-putting for new users of these forums. It probably gives a very bad impression. Mind you, he isn't the only one.

Indeed, the path of conflict is easier to tread than the path of peace.

Respect to all.