Turning off auto-save

[Goldfinger]

Uh? have you used the new "revert to saved"" function in Lion (found in preview)? You can browse differend versions of your edits just like in time machine. Try it out.

I dont know if its good or bad yet...its differend workflow thats for sure.

Yes I only thought of it after using Time Machine, still it's the same thing as using TM. It's just downright annoying and a waste of time to have to go back. I want to save when I want, not when the OS wants to.

 

[bobnlyne]

ms office doesnt support this feature yet, ms saying it is coming

Thanks. I sorta expected that. I wonder if I should hold my breath for ms. Maybe I should take bets on which comes first, Lion 7.2 or the ms update. So far I do like my Office for Mac. So far.

 

[JackFerrod]

I dont know if its good or bad yet...its differend workflow thats for sure.

While I'm always up for an experiment I'd say in this case it would be good to give people the ability to turn it off - simply to help people who don't want to use this new workflow...

 

[gerhard.tinned]

I got bitten by autosave as well today.

I was comparing a ton of JPEGs today and I did that by making quick rough crops on the areas that needed to be compared.
Obviously Preview found it necessary to save that crop into the image. And upon closing it didn't ask me if I wanted to save.

Thank god for Time Machine but come on. What if I had done that to a bunch of images that weren't backed up by Time Machine yet?

I appreciate the feature but having it always on is NOT a good idea. Also Save As really has to come back. The duplicate thing is not a serious alternative.

See https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1181550/ There are your original files. 🙂