Autosaving nightmare

OK, Apple tries to save our souls (data) through the autosaving function. We do not have to remember to save files, it's done automatically. It's much better than the old way. Or not???

I have external USB drive formatted to NTFS (yes, I am surrounded by heretics who use Windows and I need to share data with them). I needed to crop a photo, but I wanted to leave the original untouched. I opened the photo in Preview, cropped it and exported under other name. What a suprise, the original photo is cropped too and because it's on NTFS I cannot even revert it back to original state :-(

So I do not have to remember saving files, but now I have to remember not to modify them. Moreover, I have to be double careful, where I am opening the file from, because if I would actually rely on the autosaving function and posibility to revert changes, I can be very badly surprised... This certainly makes my life easier :-(

Any ideas how to get rid of this function at least on non HSF volumes?

Posted on Aug 17, 2011 9:24 PM

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hzels

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Aug 21, 2011 1:53 AM in response to pepa_u

pepa_u wrote:

Of course, one can turn this off in preferences, but then it does not work in apps where it is usefull...

Please have a look here:

http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/01/turn-off-resume-per-app-in-mac-os-x-lion/

HTH

pepa_u Author

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Aug 21, 2011 3:39 AM in response to hzels

Hzels, thanks a lot! It works.

pepa_u Author

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Aug 21, 2011 4:40 AM in response to hzels

Here I found one more option to achieve it:

http://osxdaily.com/2011/07/29/discard-windows-from-resume-os-x-lion/

hzels

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Aug 21, 2011 5:23 AM in response to pepa_u

pepa_u wrote:

Here I found one more option to achieve it:

http://osxdaily.com/2011/07/29/discard-windows-from-resume-os-x-lion/

That is the ALT-CMD-Q, which terminates an app without resume. But it does not turn off resume for this app. Apple has not provided an official switch yet (all the command line tweaks are not documented AFAIK).

pepa_u Author

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Aug 21, 2011 5:40 AM in response to hzels

Sure, but at least the QuickTime does not re-open all windows next time it starts. If it's just a matter of learning new shortcut, I have no problem with that.

Morgan2

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Aug 21, 2011 6:35 AM in response to pepa_u

This is good info, thanks. I still think Apple took a simple process with a lot of flexibility and made it more complex for anybody who knows what they're doing and simple for people who've never used a computer before. These kinds of issues will become more prevelant with the OS as Apple tries to merge the user experiences of iOS and OSX. They don't have a history of giving users a lot of options to turn this kind of stuff on and off, so I'm not overly optimistic about the future of OSX.

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