Textedit save as missing

It's driving me crazy that I can no longer "save as" to change the format and location of a text file in Textedit.
I don't want to duplicate my file and rename it to solve the issue. Developers take note. This *****.

While Apple has not said it, claiming they "might" change is avoiding the blatantly obvious direction the company has decided to go. The infrastructure behind the change is so implemented in Lion that Apple would have to change its document-handling paradigm in order to implement Save As. Given the closeness of this function to the Duplicate command's features, and given Apple's promotion of its autosave/versions APIs to the developer community its basically said and done that Apple will not be returning to the older document handling approaches.
There is always a "remote possibility" (as is the case in everything), but in essence it's safe to bet that Apple will not revert the changes.

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Maybe I'm missing something, but is there any way to have TextEdit save a document as a .txt by default? It's rather annoying to have to rename the extension from .rtf to .txt every time.

TextEdit->Preferences->New Document->select Plain Text. Works like that in SL and, AFAIK, in Lion.

TextEdit Save Error Message "you don't have permission..."

TextEdit, in both Mountain Lion and now Mavericks,displays what appears to be a fake "Save "error:
"You don’t have permission to write to the folder that the file “XXXXX.txt” is in.
Your changes will not be saved until the problem is resolved."
I have repaired permissions several times with no result. The permissions are clean, not requiring fixing. I am Admin. I should be able to save anywhere, altho I have tried saving in many different places just to test.
It does not ask for the Admin password.
Here's when it happens:
1) Open a document. either new or existing.
2) Type some text in it.
3) Save -- choose destination if new and it seems to work.
4) Start typing in the document
5) After a few seconds I get the above error message that drops down from the title bar at the top of the document.
6) I have to click the OK button and I can go on typing.
Repeat
Save document, type a few characters, get error message, click OK.
Repeat all day long.
Yet it seems that my changes have been saved.
Most annoying.

Wow. Why bother reading the forum if you are convinced the solution isn't going to work before even trying it?
Another viewer besides myself commented above that they repeated the process and it worked for them, so it's not exclusive to my setup.
A search for textedit revealed 97 files. The search took 12 seconds on my eight core Mac Pro.
I quit EasyFind, opened TextEdit and made a simple change in the preferences, saved and then quit TextEdit.
I searched again with EasyFind, sorted by Modified and found eight files had been changed at the exact time I quit TextEdit. One of those is the culprit. I deleted them all.
No, I don't work for EasyFind, nor do I know the people, nor do I receive compensation of any type from them. I like it and recommend it because it just plain works and I like to share good info like that with the Mac community, (BTW, it's free)
Good luck with solving it on your end. If you find a more scientific solution please share it so we can see how it should be done by a real tech support guy instead of an amateur like me. (I was an Apple Var at one time, now I do some support for my friends. I'm on about my tenth Mac, the first being a Fat Mac, and have two Macs and an iPhone at this time. No doubt I have no idea what I'm doing)
You really are funny! You must be a, oh never mind, I was going to name a political party.

Why does a document in Textedit save as .txt when I try to save it as .html?

I am trying to save a document in Textedit as a .html and it will work at first but if I edit it and press "Save as Version" it saves it as a .txt. It is getting very annoying because I have to change it every time I open it. Please Help

I think if I understand you correctly this could work, if you uncheck the box in Textedit preferences "Add .txt........." and then do a "save as" .html.
Then "get info" on the document and define what you want to open it with. It should only open then the way you want it to keeping the .html

10.5.1 iTunes screen saver gone missing

I updated to 10.5.1 yesterday. Today before a presentation I turned off my screen saver (and sleep display). After the presentation I went to turn my screen saver back on and the iTunes album art choice seems to be missing!
The screen saver was working after the upgrade until this morning when I turned it off. All I want to do is find it to turn it back on.
Help? Suggestions?

Thanks. I looked and the screen saver was there (along with other savers not listed. I am not sure what combination of things I tried next worked, but most likely it was simple doing a full shutdown, going to dinner and then restarting my computer which brought back all of the savers.
Not sure why they disappeared, but I am happy to have them back.

"Save as" misses the point

Hi,
the Save as… function is back which makes me quite happy.
But after using it the first time with preview, I am greatly disappointed. It doesn't work the way it previously did and should work. I cropped several images and hat to manually recover all of the originals because they were automatically saved with the same changes as the new copies. I have the feeling that the developers didn't understand what "Save as" is and why it is so useful. Right now it's just duplicating.
The Save-as concept works this way:
- Open a document (file)
- Edit it
- Decide that these changes are worth a new version of your document (developers call it fork or so)
- Choose the menu item "Save as" to save the changed document as a new one
- The original document remains untouched in it's place
It is self explanatory that I save the changes into the new document, but not into the original.
This should apply even though "Autosave" is on and the original document is closed automatically. –> Design error
Additionally I had turned on the option "Ask to save before closing...." but the system didn't ask, it just saved and closed the file automatically. –> Bug
What Mountain Lion did when I edited my images: It saved all changes to the new AND the original images. All the originals were also cropped and I had to use the star wars mode to recover every image one by one. Frustrated would be an understatement.

Since Steve has died, things are getting worse!
What kind of idiot had the idea to change something which cannot be made better?
Confusion all around and loss of data is the result, because it is different in different applications too.
http://www.golem.de/news/mac-os-x-10-8-speichern-unter-ist-keine-gute-idee-1208- 93644.html
http://macperformanceguide.com/LionHairballs-SaveAsGone.html
Let`s tell Apple that they missed the point how computers an human beings work.
http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

Why cant textEdit save as .txt files?

It does not save to plain .txt. Why?

The text itself may be universal but the end-of-line characters are not. TextEdit on the Mac uses a line feed character (LF = 0x0A) as it's end of line character... the standard on Unix systems. Windows uses a combination of both a carriage return and a line feed (CRLF = 0x0D0A). It's the lack of the carriage returns that's causing the Windows machine to treat your text file as a single line. (Note that pre-OS X Mac apps used just a carriage return (CR = 0x0D) as their end-of-line character... so there are actually three variations you might run across).
Some editors can deal with all three types of end of line characters and will also let you convert a file from one type to another. I'm not sure if TextEdit can do this. I believe the editor built into Xcode can though and probably BBEdit or TextWrangler. I'm sure there are probably some Windows editors that will also deal with different line endings.
Steve

TextEdit - Save preset for Find & Replace?

Hey, all!
Quick question... is there any way to save a preset for a Find & Replace function in the native TextEdit app in Mac OS? I do a routine F&R using a long "Insert Pattern" (I haven't had time to learn Regular Expressions yet in order to use another app)... I'd love to be able to just do a quick F&R on a text file instead of having to build the string every time.
Possible?
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-=R=-

thnx Tom - yes, all the text is there, editable and I can add new text to it and save. But I can't search it using Find, trying unique words I see right there in the first few paragraphs atop the file. Then tried 'and' which only found two in the whole large file, embedded within a block of what I guess are formatting characters also bunched up at the bottom of the file below my original text.
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The option to Save is missing from action list

Hi,
I am trying to create an action button to Save my file but unfortunately, it seems to be missing from the action list, as shown below:
Can I add the File>Save or File>Save as to this list? If not how can I save this file?
Another important issues is that I will need to be able to save it on both an iPad and a Microsoft based PC, do I have to do anything different?
Thanks you in advance.
Caroline

I believe this is on purpose. Unless a script is installed on the local
machine of the user you can't save the file silently, ie without their
consent. And such a script is not going to work on iOS devices, only on
desktops.

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No, I'm sorry (that would be insane).
Indeed it would. I was just wondering if something was happening in the area of screwed up display buffer, or other related memory errors.
It comes back when I re-open the app.
That is weird. Probably has to do with the Autosave/Versions feature of Lion and later. TextEdit tries to always come back to the last state (i.e. a bunch of text you has already started). It may have gotten trapped in a spot it's not supposed to. Big, BIG time guessing here, though.

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Satellite M30: Power Saver options missing after motherboard replacement

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I've just received my laptop back from the service center, and unsurprisingly they stuffed up a feature that used to exist!
I had taken my laptop (M30 1.7GHz Special Edition) to the repair center for a defect and they informed me that the motherboard needed to be replaced. I received the laptop back a couple of days ago and I immediately noticed the laptop getting overheated, the fan did not turn on as frequently as it used to when setting the profile to "Full Power".
After hours of investigation, I noticed that a few options that used to exist in the Toshiba Power Saver does NOT exist anymore. Thus, I feel my laptop is running as in battery optimised even though it's set to full power.
As I said, the fan is not turning on as frequently, leading to the laptop getting overheated. While the fan used to be almost constantly ON on full power prior to the replacement of the motherboard.
Here's how the power saver used to look like "prior" to taking the laptop to the repair center:
http://www.foxpop.com/imre/2006/toshibatecram3review/toshibapowersaver1.gif
And here's how the power saver looks like now, after the replacement of the motherboard:
http://www.ixbt.com/portopc/toshiba-satellite/power.png
with the CPU processing speed maximum of 3, instead of 4.
Notice how I'm now missing the "CPU control method" option, and I'm unable to set the processing speed to more than level 3!
The cooling method does not seem maximum performance to me either, due to the symptoms I mentioned above.
Any idea on why that might have happend? Please note that I used the system recovery CD and returned everything to the factory settings, still no luck. I'm sick and tired of going back to their lousy repair center. If someone can point out the problem I will be very grateful.
P.S. I'm using version 7 of the power saver, BIOS verion 1.4 (original)
Thanks in advance.

Hi
I wonder why you did not contact the service guys again.
After the reparation everything should works fine and if the notebook does not run properly you should immediately report it! In my opinion its a warranty claim.
However, in my knowledge after the motherboard replacement the micro code on the board must be updated therewith the CPU could run with full performance.
What CPU speed appears in the windows system?
Im not 100% sure if the missing microcode update is responsible for your problem but I would recommend asking the ASP for opinion.

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