Disable autosave

yes- it's easy and I have been thinking about doing this myself.

Since you have a complete bootable clone, all you need to do it start from the clone, fire up your MBP in target mode, and clone to it using the SuperDuper! that's in your clone. You don't need to do anything else.

Using the appropriate settings in SuperDuper!, the cloning process will wipe everything that's already on the MBP and you'll finish up with a pristine MBP that is identical to what was in the clone.

Another disadvantage I have encountered today which I more or less would consider as a bug: When creating a new document, editing, working on it etc and then closing the app as usual with cmd-Q, I am not asked for a save location or to give the document a name. The app just quits. So what happened today was that I couldn't find that new document I created last friday. I looked in the Project folder but there was nothing and also no spotlight results. Made me quite mad. As I opened another document, that lost document poped up as "untitled document".

So if you exit your work sessions with cmd-Q (what I thought was the point of autosave), you will be able to work on an autosave-draft for ever, which is hidden in the library. Only cmd-S and cmd-W will initially ask you for a name and a location for that file.

The point of Autosave is to save automatically the changes made to a file.

As long as you don't save once, there is no file so it doesn't save.

Since the first time I write in forums I repeat that the first thing to do when we create a new document is to save it once to be sure that all needed parameters are correctly defined.

I assume that when you Quit, the system make no difference between a deliberate Quit and some failure.

It do its best to save your works even if you can't help it.

It's really easy to retrieve a document saved this way.

When you re-open the app,create a blank doc and try to save.

You will get the folder used to save your doc.

You may also get it in the app's preferences file which contains the path to the folder in which the app made it's last save task.

At least it's the way the apps which I use behave.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) mardi 16 août 2011 23:55:04

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

A glimmer of intelligence: the new upgrade (out yesterday) of the *excellent* Graphic Converter has Versions and Autosave disabled by default. You can turn them on if you want to.

See? It CAN be done.

Been away from the forum on business for a few days and it looks like some interesting things have been discussed ! - especially the Ted Landau articles Tom referenced.

Tom's answer to Sqidge's question cheered me up no end though. I have a relatively recent (pre-Thunderbolt) MBP that should last me a good few years (I can't afford another new machine right now) and I use it mainly in clamshell mode tucked away on a shelf, driving a 30" Cinema display. My HID of choice is a Kensington Expert Mouse trackball. This means I don't use or need gestures. Under Snow Leopard I use SizeUp to control my windows and I use Letterbox to make Mail play nicely (which things give me a very close approximation of the good things I found in Lion) and as I'm not a developer, there is absolutely no need for me to tolerate the shortcomings of Lion. I was concerned that by going back to SL I would put myself in what would eventually become a stagnant backwater. However, if most machines can run SL, then as my current (very personalised and possibly quite unusual) set-up does all I need it to, staying as I am now (a very happy SL user) looks perfectly possible - certainly for the foreseeable future....or have I missed something?

As for the iOS-ification of OS X - it seems to me that many of the 'features' of iOS are necessitated by the restrictions and deficiencies inherent in portable devices. Whilst iOS does a very good job of working around these and providing an enjoyable (if lightweight) user experience on those devices, it seems a shame deliberately to bring these shortcomings to a perfectly good OS without giving those of us who don't wish that our Mac Pro's and Cinema displays were portable devices the option to switch them off.

There's a time and place for everything - but please give us the choice.

Maybe I should save up quickly for a nice Mac Pro before they become extinct so we can become happy old dinosaurs together!!

Same for me !

Give us the possibility of turning off these new "amazing" features

I also would like to disable autosave .... I'm working on a huge Pages document and it freezes every 2 minutes, beceause it's saving ! Ican't work on it anymore !!!!😕

Sqidge here again: If you think that if you may like or need a current model Mac that can run 10.6, hie thee to your online Apple Store refurb section. Every store I have checked is loaded with what are in essence current model iMacs, MPs & MBPs.

I had spent a frantic 15 pre-noRosetta days trying to analyse my Mac needs for the next 8-10 years, and finally decided on a MBP with to-order hi-def/matt screen/big HD/15” quad-core i7, in the hope that it will still be good for a few years, and after that just become as slow as I will be, but gently. I ordered it with the STRONG proviso that it boot into 10.6. Weeks later notified "Good News! Your New MBP now come with Rion!” Won't sell me a 10.6 model.

Order cancelled. Depression.

Then some link flicked me to the Oz refurb department, and blow me down, there was my ordered Mac! At 20% off! Which is now sitting on my desk, and a smile is back on face.

Every other country’s Apple Store seems to be in the same position. They have lots of ‘old’ stuff to move.

If you were vaguely thinking new, I’d say go for it.

But I like it...as a joke

As I work on document, it calculates something, freezes time to time - really busy. But when I want to close document, it says it could not save the versions on the network drive!

Before, had only M$ to bash, now have Appl too. With new Windows style buttons/progress bar, it actually makes sense..

Before, had only M$ to bash

ur right, and we have not done enough of that here. the only app that bombs on my flawlessy running Lions is MS word, and im sure its related to the ms autosave system. I work on huge-O complex M$ word files, and no matter what autosave settings i use, i can't get autosave to save my butt when i need it. either the autorecovery recovers nothing, or the backup file gets corrupt or is not created when word 2011 goes south. the only way to make sure my work gets saved securely between the 1-hour TM increments is to remember to manually save-as to a new file, which is just something i can't get my brain to do enough, no matter how many years i do this...and the older i get, the less i remember. but this is not a lion specific problem, as all the cats have had this problem with msword. so,here is a needed bash on M$ and a plug for a better way to handle autosave. i like the implementation in Pages, I just can't use it.

Another vote to disable Autosave. I am working with huge (sometimes 500MB) Keynote documents to use as Portfolio and Media Presentations. The Autosave kills me every time I quickly want to move a slide before a presentation. Every edit takes 10 times as long, watching the spinning beach ball.

Apart from that 500MB versions seriously steal disc space!

Already left feedback. Let's hope they enable the disable!

thanks,

Stefan.

The culprit is not Autosave or Versions, it's a huge design flaw in iWork applications.

Happily, I'm quite sure that the apps would be enterirely reworked to accomodate the system requirements.

In Versions the system is designed to store only what is modified.

Due to the foolish scheme ruling iWork apps, it's the entire index.xml which must be saved when we change a single character.

As it's doing exactly the opposite of what Apple is asking developers to achieve for iCloud, I'm a bit optimistic.

For those needing to be efficient, at this time, the best scheme is to move back to Snow Leopard until january 2012.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) jeudi 1 septembre 2011 14:19:42

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Yvan is right. However, if you are stuck in Lion for whatever reason, here's an alternative:

Since AutoSave is only supported in a few Apple apps, the easiest way to "disable" it is to use alternative software. I recommend downloading LibreOffice, free opensource s/w that is not supported by 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.