What happened to auto-lock in mountain lion? I need it back.

I had my whole company upgrade to Lion, so we could use the well thought out source control features of the desktop. One of the key features was auto-lock. This prevents someone from accenditally changing a document without commiting to it. The auto-locking made the other changes such as duplicate make sense.
Now these are gone in Mountain lion. Which also makes the other changes to the file system like duplicate superfluous.
How do we get them back? Do we have to be stuck in Lion forever? Who puts in new features in an OS, just to remove them wihtout an option in the next cycle? That is inane.
Is there any way to turn this back on?

Go through each of the sources Music, Movies etc. and select Playlists. Use the elipsis ... to enable sources. Apps, Tones, and Internet Radio don't have a Playlists button, the others do and remember your selection. Not exactly the same as the old sidebar, but not too different.
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What happens to the partitions? do they stay the same or does the upgrade pretty much do a factory restore and make me start from square one again?
I have a time capsule. but do not really know how to work it like its supposed to. i just really use it to store data that i do not need on my partitions at the current times.

I do not have any knowledge about boorcamp but on my old MacBook with snowleapard,
I was not able to upgrade to Mountain Lion Because of my hardware I think.
And about tha bootcamp partition:
there shouldn't be any problem with upgrading "if even possible" because the Mac partition
can't edit the Windows partition.
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Hark, I fixed that. Had to do the same thing in time machine.
Error
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Front row was done away with. Last supported 10.6
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What happens when your lock button stops working?

what happens when your lock button stops working?

The world end.
Seriously, nothing "happens".
are you asking how to fix it? If so, why don't you just ask?

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what happened to the mail format ? This didnt need changing!
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More information would be helpful. What version of the OS are you running? What about the new layout don't you like? Try Mail/Preferences/Viewing and check use classic layout to see if that is what you want.
Send Apple feedback. They won't answer, but at least will know there is a problem. If enough people send feedback, it may get the problem solved sooner.
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HT201342 What happens if you don't have Lion or Mountain Lion?

All new iCloud Mail accounts now come with an @icloud.com email address. As an existing user, we'd like to offer you this new address as well. We have reserved [email protected] you, and you can now use this address with your iOS devices and computers by following these simple instructions.
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In the last week, I have found several of the files that I have generated or downloaded have become locked. Since Apple has eliminated the Auto locking feature that use to be in Time Machine. The files include PDFs, PHGs, TXTs, etc. How do I stop files from being locked? How do I unlock the ones that are locked? I can not emtpy my Trash.

When I went to "Get Info" on one of the locked files [a TXT file] per your steps, I noticed that the there was a Locked box checked. I unchecked that box and was then able to remove the files from Trash without any further action.
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Efax locking in Mountain Lion

I have a Zoom USB fax modem, model 3095 attached to my 2012 Mac Mini running Mountain Lion, 10.8.2. I am unable to receive faxes after configuring it as as a USB fax and setting the appropriate receive options (save faxes to file and email to user, answer after two rings).
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Enabling automatic file lock in Mountain Lion?

The Autosave+duplicate+autolock features in lion where one of the best things to ever happen to the operating system. It provided a bit of source control right in the OS. Brilliant.
For the first time, people didn't accedentially tromp on old files when they ment to "save as", but pessed save instead. In our small company it was a huge improvement in file management.
In Mountain lion autolock is gone(!?!) And without it the autosave and duplicate features don't quite make sense on their own. Worse yet, you don't have to accedientally tromp on a file, the system will do it for you if you make changes before you "save as".
Anyway to turn on autosave? Even from the terminal?
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I'm running Mavericks and when I try to print on my networked HP LaserJet 1320tn I get the message "Printing - The printer is in use." and nothing happens. The same set up works fine's with Mountain Lion. I am uptodate. Any thoughts?

Hi,
Thanks, but these suggestions aren't helping.
I have
1. tried to print form a different add
2. deleted and reinstaled the printer
3. deleted and reinstall the printer drivers
4. reset the printing system
there's no problem with the printer or the wireless as (1) i can print using my partner's mac with mountian lion and (2) I can see the printer on my own mac (mavericks)
Any more suggestions?
Thanks
Laurie

What happened to auto-lock in mountain lion? I need it back.

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