Versions and Time machine

That's what I thought, same as all those people that keep repeating the nonsense that you can turn off Resume in General prefs. The definitive answer to Resume is here. At present, it still needs someone to discover the terminal command to turn off that checkbox. I'm guessing it must be something along the lines of

defaults write com.apple.loginwindow [name of checkbok] disable | false

but I'm not sure what the checkbox is called (I've tried using the text in the box, but that don't work). I'm also not entirely sure that loginwindow is the process that controls the shutdown dialogue box.

Getting back to my own topic, 😊 there must also be a way to disable Versions. You can disable the local snapshots drive that keeps Time machine backups on your HD (Macbook's only), and I'm sure it must be possible to do it with Versions. Basically, everything on a Mac is configurable once you get into Terminal, I just don't know enough about it yet to know how to do it.

Surely, there must be people here that do?

Apple will never put it in the UI going by what people from the Developer program are saying, but someone will eventually write a hack for it.

What makes you say it has something to do with a SQLdatabase? I'd like to understand the connection.

And the article repeats the same instructions with the General Pane in System Prefs, so calling those instructions nonsense is well, a bit misinformed.

No, that's not fair. I said the claim that just ticking that box turns of Resume system-wide is nonsense, which is what people all over the blogosphere keep repeating. The article I linked to points out that you first have to dothat, but its not enough. You have to also uncheck the box in the shutdown window.

Secondly, the article correctly states that when you press Option-Quit it will quit without saving windows IF you haven't unchecked the box in System Prefs > General. However, if you have already done that, then the behaviour is reversed (in other words, uncheking the box in system prefs means ordinary quit won't keep windows on quitting. However, if you do want to keep windows on a particular occasion, you don't have to go back to System Pres > general to re-enable, you just do opt-quit). Don't blame me if that's complicated, it's just the way it works!!

I agree the link you provided gives a better overview, and some more options which I hadn't seen covered by anyone else. Thx for that! 🙂

Thanks for that.

Wow, that Ars Technica article's going to take me a month to get through 😮, but great link!

Cheers!