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

[J. Landman Gay]

On 1/23/14, 5:16 PM, Graham Samuel wrote:
> That's good info, but IMHO the whole business of removing "Save
> As..." and forcing the user to make a duplicate and rename it (or use
> Time Machine) in order to secure a particular revision of a document
> so as to allow rollback, is clunky.

So do we all. In fact, when it was introduced in Mountain Lion the 
uproar was so huge that Apple retreated, sort of. They put it back in 
Mavericks. Only they didn't want to really put it back so they hid it -- 
you now have to hold down the option key when pulling down the File 
menu, and like magic the Save item (which in the current OS seems 
superfluous to me) turns into Save As.

The problem with Apple's approach of looking back through auto-archived 
copies is that if your change was made on page 42, it isn't going to 
show up in the pretty carousel you can view easily. You'll have no idea 
which of those copies has the buried changes you want to revert to 
because all you can see is page one. So to find the right copy you have 
to page through 42 pages of each one. Which would be tedious but still 
kind of work if you happen to remember where in the document the 
differences are.

If I sound distainful, I am.

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