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lucafrombrooklyn
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Q: Disable autosave

Hello, anybody figured out how one can disable autosave? I just *don't* want it, and I have my reasons.

Thanks,

 

l.

Mac OS X (10.7)

Posted on Jul 21, 2011 10:30 AM

by putnik,Solvedanswer
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A:

I don't think you are right. "Revert to Saved" just brings up the star wars thing with the versions listed, all of them.

 

Anyway, when I'm working on my best sellers, I used "Save As" at the end of each chapter and added a ch1, ch2 etc onto the file name. I can do exactly the same now, using "Duplicate". The versions thing is more of a recovery aid or for forensic analysis perhaps.

 

If they hadn't renamed "Save As" to "Duplicate", this thread would probably not exist.

Posted on Jul 25, 2011 11:48 PM

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  • by Ian Parkinson,Helpful

    Ian Parkinson Ian Parkinson Jul 21, 2011 10:32 AM in response to lucafrombrooklyn
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    Jul 21, 2011 10:32 AM in response to lucafrombrooklyn

    I don't think so.

  • by lucafrombrooklyn,

    lucafrombrooklyn lucafrombrooklyn Jul 21, 2011 10:35 AM in response to Ian Parkinson
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    Jul 21, 2011 10:35 AM in response to Ian Parkinson

    Thank you Ian, that's very bad news.

     

    l

  • by monkey paw,Helpful

    monkey paw monkey paw Jul 21, 2011 10:36 AM in response to lucafrombrooklyn
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    Jul 21, 2011 10:36 AM in response to lucafrombrooklyn

    I don't know that there's a way to disable it systemwide.  It really doesn't exist in too many apps yet.  I know in the few that it does exist in, such as TextEdit, it is an option in  Preferences > Open and Save > Savings Files.

     

    MP 

  • by lucafrombrooklyn,

    lucafrombrooklyn lucafrombrooklyn Jul 21, 2011 10:38 AM in response to monkey paw
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    Jul 21, 2011 10:38 AM in response to monkey paw

    Thank you MP. It does not seem to be the case in Pages. Found no way to disactivate it, even only inside the application.

  • by Steven W. Riggins,

    Steven W. Riggins Steven W. Riggins Jul 21, 2011 10:41 AM in response to lucafrombrooklyn
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    Jul 21, 2011 10:41 AM in response to lucafrombrooklyn

    You should share your reasons with Apple so they can understand your needs better.

  • by lucafrombrooklyn,

    lucafrombrooklyn lucafrombrooklyn Jul 21, 2011 10:44 AM in response to Steven W. Riggins
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    Jul 21, 2011 10:44 AM in response to Steven W. Riggins

    Yes of course, I regularly do it. In the meantime....

     

    l.

  • by monkey paw,

    monkey paw monkey paw Jul 21, 2011 10:55 AM in response to lucafrombrooklyn
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    Jul 21, 2011 10:55 AM in response to lucafrombrooklyn

    I see.  I use Offce 2011 so I'm not too familiar with Pages.  I agree, I don't think I would want autosave on.  Luckily for me, Microsoft's OSX development is so slow, we'll be on a new operating system before they add autosave. 

     

      Try System Preferences > Time Machine > Options 

  • by Steven W. Riggins,

    Steven W. Riggins Steven W. Riggins Jul 21, 2011 10:50 AM in response to monkey paw
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    Jul 21, 2011 10:50 AM in response to monkey paw

    I really like Auto Save (have been using Lion for awhile now) and I miss it in apps like Office.  However, Auto Save without Versions is not good.  Auto Save won't make sense for apps like Photoshop, due to file sizes. 

     

    I have 4 documents open in Text Edit that have never been "saved" - They are all untitled.  They have persisted across many reboots.  They act like super stickies

  • by papalapapp,

    papalapapp papalapapp Jul 22, 2011 2:44 PM in response to lucafrombrooklyn
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    Jul 22, 2011 2:44 PM in response to lucafrombrooklyn

    I need the option "do not save" on closing the file. I think I'm not the only one around. This is really a serious issue becaus versions just flat-irons over my work with stuff that I don't want to be saved. That's just the same as data loss.

     

    And I don't see why I should use the go-back-to-previous-version celebration movie.

     

    For a quick fix I'd love to shut down autosave.

  • by joaomcarvalho,

    joaomcarvalho joaomcarvalho Jul 22, 2011 3:30 PM in response to lucafrombrooklyn
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    Jul 22, 2011 3:30 PM in response to lucafrombrooklyn

    I also need to disable auto-save and versioning. I was croping some photos on Preview just to check how they looked that way. Later I found that the photos where cropped even if I didn't save them. It doesn't make any sense. Lion is starting to annoy me and I think I'll go back to Snow Leopard. The weird thing is that to me Snow Leopard feels like an update from Lion and not the other way! Strange thing...

  • by lucafrombrooklyn,

    lucafrombrooklyn lucafrombrooklyn Jul 22, 2011 3:38 PM in response to joaomcarvalho
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    Jul 22, 2011 3:38 PM in response to joaomcarvalho

    Yes, this is precisely the kind of things I do and I do not want to save! Add to it that if you have Versions on text documents, it's practically impossible to figure out what you want to go back to and what you want to throw away for any kind of text file longer than one page or so. What are you going to do with the zillions of versions saved against your will, in case you really need to go back to a previous version of, say, a manuscript of 40 pages? Are you going to read all the 40 pages a zillion times? Because Versions does not show you the changes between versions, but the full **** thing!

     

    I am sorry to say I have the same feeling as joaomcarvalho....

     

    l

  • by papalapapp,

    papalapapp papalapapp Jul 22, 2011 5:56 PM in response to lucafrombrooklyn
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    Jul 22, 2011 5:56 PM in response to lucafrombrooklyn

    Exactly! With the current state of Versions/Autosave we are not able to decide what to save and what not.

  • by tim ferris,

    tim ferris tim ferris Jul 23, 2011 3:06 AM in response to lucafrombrooklyn
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    Jul 23, 2011 3:06 AM in response to lucafrombrooklyn

    Hello i was so excited about auto save as i am a heavey iWork keynote user. I put together a lot of big presentations for my job with video and audio and other media that looks great in keynote. Its always been a dream to use over my powerpoint users. However since upgrading to Lion, every time i ad media to a keynote presentation it freezes for 1 or 2 mins. I assume its auto saving but as the files are large its increased my work load 100 fold. Its just not workable. And i nearly punched the screen the other day its driving me insane. I have a top spec iMac so its not the hardwear its always worked well.

     

    The demonstration that Apple use in the videos are with a simple docunment. I really hope Apple see this as a curse and not a help. A smaller point but just as fustrating, gestures with the mouse keeps kicking in by acident at least i can switch that off. I think its Lion is style over substance im afraid. (i love Apple by the way so this is not flipant feedback)

  • by lucafrombrooklyn,

    lucafrombrooklyn lucafrombrooklyn Jul 23, 2011 3:10 AM in response to tim ferris
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    Jul 23, 2011 3:10 AM in response to tim ferris

    Yes the problem with Lion is less in the details than in a general choice which seems to be terribly wrong: the new features are intrusive, non respectful of the users's choices, and cannot be changed. They have also not been thought through completely. This reminds me very much Windows and it's a sad observation on the part of somebody who has used Apple for the past 30 years. Never seen something like that before. Let's hope somebody puts the system back in its right track.

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