Auto Save and Versions
Where can I control Auto Save and Versions? I can't find it in System Settings.
Can I control it by terminal commands?
On http://www.apple.com/macosx/what-is/ Apple claims:
Versions creates a new version of a document each time you open it and every hour while you’re working.
While here http://www.apple.com/macosx/whats-new/auto-save.html Apple claims:
Forget about manual saving and forge ahead with confidence. Auto Save in OS X Lion automatically saves your work, while you work, during pauses and every five minutes. And Lion saves changes in the background so you're never interrupted with progress bars.
So I wonder every five minutes or every hour? Would be nice to make sure on each Mac itself whether it auto-saves every five minutes or every hour and to actually allow its user o set the frequency.
It does both. It saves your work in the current version every 5 minutes. Every hour, it creates a new version of the document.
I haven't searched for any version settings, yet.
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Auto Save and Versions not working
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There is the problem with that sentiment. I don't like the loss of "save as" either. I think the new save/duplicate paradigm has more steps and is poorly implemented to boot. Yet, people complain far more about Versions and Autosave than they do about "save as"? Why on earth would anyone complain about Autosave? There is no user interface change involved with Autosave. It is entirely in the background. If you don't like Autosave, you are free to randomly delete files from your machine and from Time Machine if you want. I don't see what the point of that would be, but it would give you the same effect of not having Autosave. There is more a user impact to Versions, but it still a really cool feature. Why would you not want to have access to old versions of your document? It isn't going to eat much disk space. The last time someone complained about disk space usage by versions I calculated that it would take 38 years for them to run out of space due to Versions. If you don't want to use Versions, don't click on the Versions tools. Problem solved.
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Does auto-save and version work with old apps like pages '09?
Hello,
I'm new Lion user. I tried auto-save and version with textedit and it works.
But i'm not sure it works with pages '09.It does work if you install the update from yesterday.
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Do Auto Save and Version work for Office for Mac-documents?
Do Auto Save and Version work for "Office for Mac 2011"-documents?
No, just certain Apple apps right now. Preview, iWorks, textedit come to mind. Anything else?
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I have a document open in Pages '09 and I'm running Lion, but I am not seeing the auto save or versions features that you supposedly get my clicking on the document name. Can someone help? Do I have to turn this feature on in preferences?
I'm actually working on a Word document that Pages has converted and opened, but the document does have a title bar name. So..I have to do a manual save before auto save will start working?!?
You don't have to do a manual save. Pages will auto save the converted Word document. If you quit Pages after editing the converted document without saving, Pages will reopen the converted Word document, give it a temporary window title of "Untitiled" and have saved your edits.
I did think I see a preference setting for auto save that wasn't checked in my preferences.
I don't think Pages every had auto save. Word does though, and this may be what you're remembering.
Also, how does all this auto save and versions stuff work…
Have a read of Apple's support document titled OS X Lion: About Auto Save and Versions. This explains both and how the two features are related but different.
NB While Pages auto saves new, untitled documents it doesn't create a Version of these documents. -
How do I activate auto save and versions?
How do I activate auto save & versions?
Mountain Lion. Since ML, Auto Save and Version does not work with new user accounts I am creating. The accounts I moved from Lion MBA to Mountain Lion on my RMBP 15 have it enabled.
So: ML still has the feature, but you may not access it by Preferences. It does - only on new accounts - even not work with TextEdit. With the Accout I moved from Lion to Mountain Lion no such problems. -
So what app does auto save,and versions work for.
like when i need to write an essay? i currently am using something i found a while back called neo office. Is there a free document app that works with autosavr and versions?
TextEdit
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Question about Auto Save and Versions
Hi. I'm running the latest version of Yosemite — 10.10.2
My Mac seems to be auto-saving documents, but when I click the down arrow on a document's title, I don't see the options to "Revert to Last Saved Version" or "Browse All Versions."
Since the documents are being auto-saved, I would like to have the option of reverting and browsing saved versions. Does anyone know why I'm not seeing those options?
Thanks!Glad that helped!
Yes, I believe the way you described indeed worked in previous versions of OS X.
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When will Microsoft make an update for "Auto Save" and "Versions"?
Do you actually know something more about this missing function in office 2011?
There are a lot of people, myself included, that are hoping the answer to that question is "never". Hopefully, if they do, it will be something one can disable or tailor in preferences.
However, Office already has some of the basic elements of Versions and AutoSave right now. You can set documents to automatically save at any minute interval you want. And if you enable "Track Changes" within an Office document, you can essentially keep versions as you make changes. While "Track Changes" and Office's method of AutoSave is not identical to Apple's lion implementation, I like it better...mainly because you can enable the facets of the features at many levels, while with Lion's, you can't. Yeah, I know that there are workarounds, but they are time consuming to undo changes that you don't want, or accidentally make.
Imagine Lion's Autosave you can't turn off, on something like Photoshop. You open a file, apply a filter or two, and then decide you don't like the changes. Oops, Photoshop has saved the file.... then you have to go through the rigamarole of Versions to restore your original document. -
Hello all. I am new to the Apple iMac. Love it! Just downloaded Lion and am curious about Versions and Autosave but cannot seem to find any info in the Help menu. Will Versions work on Office for Mac software (ie, Office for Mac Excel and Word)?
Open Pages, Preview or TextEdit as the previous poster said, then:
i. hover your cursor round the title bar to make the arrow/upside down triangle visible
ii. click that arrow to see the menu.
Of course, you'll need to have some versions of a file in order for Versions to do anything! -
Would a 347 MB file be slow? Auto save and auto type turn off?
I am doing an art inventory and add jpegs of the art. I don't resize them they range from 750k to 3MB. I guess if it is slowing the program down i should? It currently is 267 rows by about 18 columns.
Thanks in advance.
Oh can I turn off auto save and auto type? That may help. How do I do that?Done.
Enter Scrip Editor
paste the posted script
File > Save > as Script on the Desktop
Move the script to the folder :
Macintosh HD:Library:Scripts:Folder Action Scripts:
CAUTION, you will be asked to enter your pasword.
Create a folder to do the job. I named mine Normalized. I created mine on the Desktop where it's easy to reach.
Go to :
Macintosh HD:Library:Scripts:Folder Actions:
Double click the alias : Configure Folder Actions
Below the left column, click
navigate to select your new folder
Below the right column, click
select the script image - normalize400.scpt
After that, drag and drop a picture file onto your folder.
The original will be move in the folder Originals (isn’t it original ?)
and a reduced copy 400 x height will be stored in the folder Normalized images.
And now, here is the script :
--{code}
Image - Normalize
This Folder Action handler is triggered whenever items are added to the attached folder.
The script rotates the image counter-clockwise (left).
Copyright © 2002–2007 Apple Inc.
You may incorporate this Apple sample code into your program(s) without
restriction. This Apple sample code has been provided "AS IS" and the
responsibility for its operation is yours. You are not permitted to
redistribute this Apple sample code as "Apple sample code" after having
made changes. If you're going to redistribute the code, we require
that you make it clear that the code was descended from Apple sample
code, but that you've made changes.
modified by Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France)
2011/12/08
This version normalize pictures so that
(1) the greater dimension become the width one (rotate left if needed)
(2) this greater dimension is ruled by the property maxWidth defined below.
property maxWidth : 400
-- set it to fit your needs
property done_foldername : "Normalized Images"
property originals_foldername : "Original Images"
property newimage_extension : "jpg"
-- the list of file types which will be processed
-- eg: {"PICT", "JPEG", "TIFF", "GIFf"}
property type_list : {"TIFF", "GIFf", "PNGf", "PICT", "JPEG"}
-- since file types are optional in Mac OS X,
-- check the name extension if there is no file type
-- NOTE: do not use periods (.) with the items in the name extensions list
-- eg: {"txt", "text", "jpg", "jpeg"}, NOT: {".txt", ".text", ".jpg", ".jpeg"}
property extension_list : {"tif", "tiff", "gif", "png", "pict", "pct", "jpeg", "jpg"}
on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving these_items
tell application "Finder"
if not (exists folder done_foldername of this_folder) then
make new folder at this_folder with properties {name:done_foldername}
end if
set the results_folder to (folder done_foldername of this_folder) as alias
if not (exists folder originals_foldername of this_folder) then
make new folder at this_folder with properties {name:originals_foldername}
set current view of container window of this_folder to list view
end if
set the originals_folder to folder originals_foldername of this_folder
end tell
try
repeat with i from 1 to number of items in these_items
set this_item to item i of these_items
set the item_info to the info for this_item
if (alias of the item_info is false and the file type of the item_info is in the type_list) or (the name extension of the item_info is in the extension_list) then
tell application "Finder"
--set name of this_item to "YK#" & (text -4 thru -1 of ("0000" & i))
my resolve_conflicts(this_item, originals_folder, "")
set the new_name to my resolve_conflicts(this_item, results_folder, newimage_extension)
set the source_file to (move this_item to the originals_folder with replacing) as alias
end tell
process_item(source_file, new_name, results_folder)
end if
end repeat
on error error_message number error_number
if the error_number is not -128 then
tell application "Finder"
activate
display dialog error_message buttons {"Cancel"} default button 1 giving up after 120
end tell
end if
end try
end adding folder items to
on resolve_conflicts(this_item, target_folder, new_extension)
tell application "Finder"
set the file_name to the name of this_item
set file_extension to the name extension of this_item
if the file_extension is "" then
set the trimmed_name to the file_name
else
set the trimmed_name to text 1 thru -((length of file_extension) + 2) of the file_name
end if
if the new_extension is "" then
set target_name to file_name
set target_extension to file_extension
else
set target_extension to new_extension
set target_name to (the trimmed_name & "." & target_extension) as string
end if
if (exists document file target_name of target_folder) then
set the name_increment to 1
repeat
set the new_name to (the trimmed_name & "." & (name_increment as string) & "." & target_extension) as string
if not (exists document file new_name of the target_folder) then
-- rename to conflicting file
set the name of document file target_name of the target_folder to the new_name
exit repeat
else
set the name_increment to the name_increment + 1
end if
end repeat
end if
end tell
return the target_name
end resolve_conflicts
-- this sub-routine processes files
on process_item(source_file, new_name, results_folder)
-- NOTE that the variable this_item is a file reference in alias format
-- FILE PROCESSING STATEMENTS GOES HERE
try
-- the target path is the destination folder and the new file name
set the target_path to ((results_folder as string) & new_name) as string
with timeout of 900 seconds
tell application "Image Events"
launch -- always use with Folder Actions
set this_image to open file (source_file as string)
set {oldW, oldH} to dimensions of this_image
if oldH > oldW then
set {oldW, oldH} to {oldH, oldW}
rotate this_image to angle 270.0
end if
set |échelle| to maxWidth / oldW
if |échelle| < 1 then scale this_image by factor |échelle|
save this_image as JPEG in file target_path with icon
close this_image
end tell
end timeout
on error error_message
tell application "Finder"
activate
display dialog error_message buttons {"Cancel"} default button 1 giving up after 120
end tell
end try
end process_item
--{code}
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) jeudi 8 décembre 2011 21:25:33
iMac 21”5, i7, 2.8 GHz, 12 Gbytes, 1 Tbytes, mac OS X 10.6.8 and 10.7.2
My iDisk is : <http://public.me.com/koenigyvan>
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