Q: Hey, Apple! Thanks for Ruining Text Edit!
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Jul 2, 2014 7:44 AMby BobHarris,I CAN'T EASILY "SAVE AS."
TextEdit -> File (Press and hold the "Option/Alt" key, and you will see "Save As...")
IT'S SLOW AND CUMBERSOME.
Sounds like you have something else running on your Mac which is affecting your performance. Perhaps you should post EtreCheck output to see if there is something on your system that might be causing this.
<https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-6174>
I CAN NO LONGER EASILY SAVE MY DOCUMENTS: IT REVERTS TO SAVING TO iCLOUD AND I HAVE TO CLICK ON MULTIPLE BUTTONS AND WINDOWS TO SAVE A DOCUMENT ON MY HARD DRIVE.
My TextEdit saves to Documents by default.
How is System Preferences -> iCloud -> [_] Documents & Data configured?
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Jul 2, 2014 9:40 AMby Kurt Lang,HelpfulIf you have a backup of Snow Leopard you can access, you can grab that version of TextEdit and replace the one installed by Lion or later. Though it's slightly more complicated than than.
You can use Terminal to delete the Lion-Mavericks version of TextEdit since the OS insists it cannot be deleted if you just drag it to the trash. You can also do a Get Info on Lion's through Mavericks' version of TextEdit. Then click on the lock and enter your admin password so you can modify it. Change all permissions to Read/Write and close the box. You can then put TextEdit in the trash.
Make sure to put the Snow Leopard version of TextEdit in your user account. Otherwise, when you do a Repair Permissions, it will destroy SL's TextEdit by trying to set its permission to where the OS thinks they should be for Lion or later. It's safe in your user account since a Repair Permissions doesn't do anything to any file or folder in a user account. I made a folder named Applications in my user account and put the Snow Leopard version of TextEdit there. There's no need to associate TextEdit files with the SL version after you remove the Lion-Mavericks version. All TextEdit documents will open in the SL version automatically.
TextEdit will then behave as you're accustomed to with Save As in the normal keystroke position. Since it's from Snow Leopard, it also doesn't know anything about Autosave/Versions and will ignore it.
