Speed up your OS... turn Autosave & Versions off globally

Gnarlodious wrote:

This doesn't work for me so I had to reverse it. I get a dialog every few minutes "You don't have permssion to write to this folder".

I suspect a daemon is still launching that tries to save the file.

I get the same dialog as well.

I'm offering an alternative perspective, Ron, on your claim of 'speed up your OS'. I think people should be informed that there is another side to this story.

No need to take it personally. That's the whole point of forums, to keep people informed and offer different perspectives.

I really haven't got anything else to say on this that I haven't already said and a flaming war I don't need, so over and out from me on this one.

Good questions RonL.

I created a new file in TextEdit, saved it, made changes to it without saving and left it open.

Some 10-20 minutes later i got the error message.

The dialog only occurs when the OS is trying to save the file, cmd-s for saving still works normally.

Ron, I'm going to try it. Still in Lion. Haven't had time to back up system will when i get home next weekend.

If I get error message others here are getting, what is the "easily reversible command"?

thanks

keith

RonL wrote:

raftr or Gnarlodius... do either of you have Time Machine turned on?

No, I use SuperDuper! for backups.

RonL wrote:

raftr

Do you have the box "Ask to keep changes when closing documents" checked in the General preference pane in System Preferences?

If not... would you check that and do what you did before to see if it still happens?

This has been checked all along, yes.

I use rsync, not TM.

A rather important note. Once you enter the Terminal command to turn Autosave/Versions off, you must restart or logoff and log back in. You need to do that as the change won't be read by the OS until you do.

I tried a test with TextEdit. Opened a new document, typed the text Original and saved it. I then opened the file and added another line. Then chose Save As. The new document had the changes, and they were not applied to the first document.

Another thing there. Once I restarted, TextEdit no longer had Duplicate in its menu and Save As became Command+Shift+S, without the Option key.

This info is just to verify my last post, and what actually happens.

For those who have tried the Terminal command, it's is very important that you restart after entering it. The change is not read or acted on by the OS until you restart and it reads the contents of the hidden .GlobalPreferences.plist in your user account. Once you restart, then things change. Here's the difference between Preview and TextEdit with the option on (default) and off.

Preview's menu appears like this by default:

After entering the Terminal command and restarting, it becomes this:

Duplicate disappears from the menu, but so does Save As. So you lose that ability with Preview. You can only Save. If you have the option in the System Preferences on to ask if you want to save changes when closing a document, then default button to cancel is "Revert to Saved". After the command, it becomes the older style "Don't Save". So the main loss with Preview is there is no Save As at all. Not even Duplicate.

TextEdit's menu appears like this by default:

After the Terminal command, it becomes this:

Duplicate goes away and is replace by Save As with the long standard Command+Shift+S keystroke. And it works just as you would expect. You can make all of the modifications you want to a text document and do a Save As. The new document has all of the changes, and the original closes unaltered.