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Is there already a rant thread to restore save as button and disable autosave?

I found some threads with users having problems with new autosave and duplicate feature, and none of them contained an answer, and I was asking myself if there is an "Apple give us the save as button" back thread somewhere already.

First of all this autosave behaviour. I really don't want pages or numbers to save every nonsense I may write in a file, sometimes by simply mistyping cmd-v in a wrong window, without me telling it to do so. How dumb is that?

Second, why is the save as button gone? And no, duplicate is not the same, because duplicate doesn't start in the same folder. If I write an invoice to the customer, I take the invoice from the last month, click save as, select new number and change some dates and sums. This means, I did before 10.7. Now I have to find this very invoice on disk, which is not everytime easy to click through, click c&p, create a new invoice, and than i can start working on it. Annoying. If I click duplicate in an open document, it starts with the default folder, which is wrong in 99.99% of the cases.

Alas, the autolocking function on freshly created copies. This is just dumb. Really.

So, what the deal with removing such a simple button as save as?

I was being using iWork for business since 2007, and I have had hard time to convince everyone in the office to be on mac, and just as I achieved that, ... Well, now the people want to move to MsOffice again, isn't it silly? Thank you Apple.

P.S. And yes I tried to live with it for 9 month, but I can't get used to it.

😢

P.P.S. I don't want to use ms-office....

MacBook Pro (17-inch Late 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3), 2. Ghz, 17", GB Ram, TC, iPhone

Posted on May 4, 2012 6:30 AM

33 replies

bizzj

Level 1

4 points

Sep 19, 2012 11:38 AM in response to cesarpixel

And once you disable auto-save, I just found this handy way to restore Save As to your menus!

http://www.tuaw.com/2012/07/29/get-save-as-back-on-mountain-lions-file-menu-easi ly-and-without/

Smartmart

Level 2

186 points

Sep 20, 2012 1:40 AM in response to cesarpixel

I don't think you can. I've been trying to figure it out but to no avail. Apple was the system we used to use because we didn't want to waste our time trying to figure things out....it just worked! I'm mosly using Word and Acrobat pro now because the autosave / duplicate thing is too much of a pain. 😟

Sep 20, 2012 1:56 AM in response to Smartmart

Smartmart wrote:

I don't think you can. I've been trying to figure it out but to no avail. Apple was the system we used to use because we didn't want to waste our time trying to figure things out....it just worked! I'm mosly using Word and Acrobat pro now because the autosave / duplicate thing is too much of a pain. 😟

Sure you can disable autosave+versions in Mountain Lion. Just follow the steps explained in the link I posted: http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/27544/how-to-completely-disable-auto-sa ve-and-versions-in-mac-os-x-lion/

I'm typing this from an iMac with autosave+versions disabled on both Preview and TextEdit (as mentioned in the above link, it seems it's not advisable to disable it system-wide because it seems to cause an slowdown at login, but it works fine if you disable it on an app-by-app basis).

I truly recommend it, because this way you have all the Mountain Lion features you wish (even autosave+versions for some apps if you wish so), while at the same time you can have a "secure" Preview and TextEdit which won't modify any file unless you explicitly saved the file. The best of both worlds, IMHO, and it should have been done as a system preference by Apple, rather than having to do it with Terminal commands, but at least it's a good solution now!

Is there already a rant thread to restore save as button and disable autosave?