Has anyone found a way to turn off autosave, and turn on save as?
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Has any enterprising developer developed a program to do this?
I would like to start using pages again instead of word.. but not until this problem is fixed.
Mac OS X (10.7)
If you hit shift then command and then s all at the same time it should allow you to do save as. if you are trying to save it as a word document if you go to export and choose word it will also save as word.
It seems that you ignore everything about Lion (10.7) which is the system used by the asker.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) mardi 25 octobre 2011 19:52:06
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Kelsey, I just tested shift-command-s in pages, keynote, and numbers.... and it doesn't work, the shortcut documentation which includes this shortcut might a leftover which someone at apple forgot to take out.... but, sadly it doesn't work. Nor have I been able to find a way to turn off the dreaded autosave.
As I already wrote many times, if you want to disable Autosave, two schemes are available
(1) open a doc, duplicate it, work on the replicate.
As long as you will not save, Autosave will not apply/
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(2) When you save a document which you plan to reuse as starting point for new ones, reame it from trucmuche.pages to trucmuche.template.
When you will "open" it, you will get an untitled file which like the replicate described above will not be autosaved as long as you don'(t save it once byu hand. It's what I mqade for year, long before Lion.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) mardi 25 octobre 2011 22:30:54
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Well, it appears that there is no way (right now) to disable AutoSave, and there still is no Save As, bummer.
And no, I am not interested in convoluted workarounds for what was simple, efficient, and effective prior to Lion.
Oh well I'll keep using Office for the time being, and check back in after a while to see if this ever gets fixed, too bad really :-(
bejohnson wrote:
Oh well I'll keep using Office for the time being, and check back in after a while to see if this ever gets fixed, too bad really :-(
Bugs need to be fixed. Consistent design choices don't.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) mercredi 26 octobre 2011 17:41:11
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Poor design choices need to be fixed, especially ones which are "Consistantly" poor.
Read the License ruling your users rights. The features aren't defined by the users but by Apple which is perfectly free to make choices which you dislike.
AutoSave is a feature which was asked by users for years. Apple introduced it with Lion. I guess that they don't plan to drop it three months later.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) mercredi 26 octobre 2011 18:40:02
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Wow, you really don't read what people write....
I asked for the option to turn AutoSave off.... I did not ask for it to be eliminated.
Apple is of course free to make it's own choices, and has made many good/brilliant ones in the past, it has also made many bad ones too... I count this as one of the bad ones.
Finally, I asked a simple technical question: Has anyone found a way to turn off autosave, and turn on save as?
That question has been answered... sadly the answer is NO
Please stop responding to this post unless you have found a way to turn AutoSave off or turn on Save As on, I don't need any mickymouse convoluted workarounds in my workflow.
Giving the ability to disable Autosave would be inconsistent.
A safety feature is efficient only if it apply always.
Motorcars or airplanes passengers aren't said you are free to fasten your seat belts when you want.
It's the same for an AutoSave feature.
As far as I know, there is no way to disable AutoSave or to disable Versions.
If we don't like these features, the available choice is to switch to an other app.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) mercredi 26 octobre 2011 19:16:05
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I have really loved using Apple Pages for our documents but the auto-save on larger documents is stopping me every 10 seconds for about 2 to 5 seconds to auto save. It is unusable. I don't mind autosave but having to stop work every 10 seconds is a big problem.
Would be nice if it would be turned off or would perform in the background. Otherwise we need to switch to Illustrator for our larger documents which is what I have been doing now.
Has anyone found a way to turn off autosave, and turn on save as?
You can't. It's built into the operating system. Apple have not provided a hidden preference for turning it off in Pages/iWork.
If you really want to turn off auto save you should go back to OS X 10.6, or keep Lion and downgrade to an earlier version of Pages/iWork. Auto Save is the future and more and more apps are supporting it, even Microsoft Office will be in a future release.
lol, I believe you mean Upgrade back to Snow Leopard?
Well, I can tell you it is not my future, I have stoped using Pages, Numbers, Keynote and Preview - back to MS Office and Acrobat, and others. Too bad, I do like Apple's office products otherwise.
My understanding is that MS Office will provide an off switch for Autosave when they implement it (just like in their windows version) - it is not systemwide, it is application by application. My hope is that they will not do away with Save As either (fingers crossed).
Has anyone found a way to turn off autosave and turn on save as?
