[OT] Mavericks Auto Save and Red Traffic Light plus Back Dot

[Björnke von Gierke]

Go to System Preferences, and select the General tab. Slightly bellow the middle, there's a checkmark saying "ask to keep changes when closing documents". Unselect it. Make sure to restart applications now, and then the new behaviour should immediately show up. 

For example in text edit, documents should show a grey "– edited" after their name, but not the red dot thingy. You can still force a save, which will include a milestone-type of save (some are also created automatically, usually when a document is closed), you can browse trough the revisions in time machine, even if you have no backup hard disk connected.

On 23.01.2014, at 02:49, Kay C Lan <lan.kc.macmail at gmail.com> wrote:

> As this is the largest community of Mac users I know please forgive me for
> asking this off topic question here.
> 
> I'm on 10.9.1 MBP 15" Retina, I have the latest versions of TextEdit 1.9
> (310) and Pages 5.0.1 (1478)
> 
> I recently purchased OS X Mavericks - The Missing Manual as I find these
> Missing Manuals have a wealth of little tidbits which help maximise your
> use of what ever program.
> 
> It states in this book that Apple programs such as TextEdit, Pages all Auto
> Save whenever you stop typing or pause your workflow. You can even Quit
> these applications and all your work is saved and available when you reopen
> the document - the inference is that you are not presented with any type of
> dialog box when you Quit because the document is already saved. Also,
> because of all of this, the convention of changing the Red traffic light
> icon at the top left of the widow, to show a black dot in it - indicating
> you have unsaved changes, no longer happens.
> 
> Well, that's not what I'm experiencing.
> 
> I open a TextEdit or Pages document and as soon as I make changes the Red
> Traffic Light icon changes to include a black dot in the the middle. I can
> leave it for 10-15 min and nothing changes, there is no Auto Save, and if I
> Quit the program I'm asked if I want to Revert, Cancel or Save.
> 
> To me, absolutely nothing has changed in this regard.
> 
> Is anyone else seeing this or are you all as per the book?
> 
> I'm thinking of submitting an errata but thought I'd better check first
> that somehow by the grace of God I happen to be the only one that has
> Mavericks behaving exactly how I expect OS X to behave.
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