What happened to Save As in Preview?

I've messed up more original files because I forgot to "duplicate" them to keep the original untouched before making changes. Thank you from the bottom of my heart, and I'd like to note that this works perfectly on 10.11.6 too. I'm ecstatic that I have my "Save As..." back! May the Universe bless you with good health, success, and happiness, Király!

Sadly, if you are converting image formats, I must recommend something other than Lion Preview. Something as simple as converting a PNG file to a JPG could easily (and silently) fail in Lion Preview. There are a number of free and low-cost image editors available - any one of which will do a better job than Lion Preview.

The "save as" has been changed to "Export". You can then change the file type and also pick a file folder to save to. If you are saving multiple pictures to the same file folder, it will remember the file folder. Works exactly the same way as "save as".

I was quite frustrated with this too, but after extensive digging around on the internet I found the answer and thought I'd share it to save others from the frustration.

Let Apple know you'd like the Save As ... feature back. I did.

http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

Why, when 'export' does the exact same thing?

It appears you are correct.

Thanks. You just saved me a lot time. (well, at least over time)

Funny, I searched this issue and found the solution to be Duplicate. It does appear that ...

Export = Save As ...

Does Export do anything that the old Save As ... did not?

Maybe the developer had spell check on and it replaced Save As ... with Export and didn't realize it.

I haven't found any real differences between "save as" and "export" yet.

And you're probably right about the developer, who knows. They probably had to change something about Preview and TextEdit to say they updated it.🙂

1 Open Loop wrote:

Does Export do anything that the old Save As ... did not?

I don't think so.

Export is still not the same. Save As allowed you to keep the document open, in the new format, and continue to work on it. With Export, you have to go get the exported document and reopen it - and close the original.

I'm a big fan of most everything in Lion - but not Preview or the loss of Save As.

Yes, good point. If that is important to you, then 'duplicate' is the way forward and close the original.

Ahhh. You're right. Export does not keep the document open.

Not only that ... File > Open Recent does not list the file. Which I suppose is correct, since I've never opened it.

Bring back Save As ... (or put the functionality into Duplicate or whatever)

Honestly, what's the point? I bet (and I posted this question) that Save As ... has been around a long, long time. I'd guess that if you looked across all applications, all OS's, all time, Save As ... would be number 5 on the list of most used features.

Save As ... probably only got beaten out by:

Power

Boot

Open

Save

Sheesh.

And riddled with bugs. I actually copied some private frameworks around and used Xcode's install_name_tool to get the Snow Leopard Preview running in Lion. I may still complain, but I won't suffer 🙂

1 Open Loop wrote:

Not only that ... File > Open Recent does not list the file. Which I suppose is correct, since I've never opened it.

If you do App Expose (3-finger swipe down for me) does it not show up there in the icons below the main window?

Preview: Neither Save nor Duplicate allows me to save to a sub-directory. Without that feature, scanning of documents is practiclly useless. Why would anyone remove this capability?