Why is saving duplicates so hard?

Mountain Lion takes me even one step farther away from the old, easy and effective "Save as" command. Now to save a duplicate of a document, I have to "Duplicate" "Save" pull down on the iCloud button to reveal my documents folder on my Mac, push on the "Expand" arrow to get to the correct folder inside my documents folder, remove the word "copy" from the file, and at last "Save". Why so complex? I just want to have a duplicate on my computer so I can work, as I often have to, off line.

Wow, people get so sensitive these days.
My point was that Logic is a Pro app and you have to expect that it is "deep". Nothing personal, really.
I wanted to be brief in my first response, but because you seemed to misinterpreted that comment, let me respond to your statements in more details:
"im stuck with having to use logic because fruities doesnt work on mac"
Why are you stuck? If you bought a new Mac then you have Garageband for free on your system. And as kcstudio suggested, this might be the better tool for what you want to do.
"apple have purposefully made music making hard"
You are not serious with that statement, are you? Panceter told you already where Logic is originated and I would argue that Logic became easier since Apple bought it.
"but im sick of spending hours on logic and logic tutorials for no results at all"
No results at all, really? Maybe this is a hint that this is the wrong app for you. I would argue that lots of Logic users have spent hours it with and got great results.
"Ill definitely have to persist and keep going with logic"
No, you don't have to. You tried already for hours (with no results at all), then why you want to continue. Above all, music making should also be fun and it seems that you aren't getting any out of using Logic.
Finally
Even though you excluded me from your cheers, I don't have any hard feeling and instead, in the holiday spirit, I want to offer you a little Christmas gift. Click on my name in the header, there you find the link to my website with my contact email address. Send me a note and I'll email you a free copy of my book "GarageBand 11 - How it Works", the pdf version or the ibooks version for the iPad. Then you can decided if this app is a better, less frustrating match for you.
Cheers to everyone, including mikey-p_s0n

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private void trackBar1_Scroll(object sender, EventArgs e)
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ConvertedBmp.Save(ConvertedBmpDir + "\\ConvertedBmp.bmp");
mymem = ToStream(ConvertedBmp, ImageFormat.Bmp);
backTexture = TextureLoader.FromStream(D3Ddev, mymem);
scannedCloudsTexture = new Texture(D3Ddev, 512, 512, 1, Usage.Dynamic, Format.A8R8G8B8, Pool.Default);
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The image in b1.bmp is not the same one i see in the pictureBox1 and the trackBar1FileInfo.
The trackBar1 Value is the same but the image is not. Maybe it happen since i'm moving too fast the trackBar1 so i can see it in the break point and therefore the image i see in the pictureBox is not the same one in the Value ?
This is the method LoadPictureAt:
private bool LoadPictureAt(int nIndex, object c)
bool bRet = false;
if (nIndex >= 0 && nIndex < trackBar1FileInfo.Length)
if (c.Equals(trackBar1))
pictureBox1.Load(trackBar1FileInfo[nIndex].FullName);
bRet = true;
if (bitmaps != null)
if (nIndex >= 0 && nIndex < bitmaps.Length)
if (c.Equals(trackBar2))
pictureBox1.Image = bitmaps[nIndex];
bRet = true;
return bRet;
For some reason the image i see in the pictureBox1 is not the same that i save in b1 when scrolling the trackBar1.

I tested again.
Now i see in pictureBox1 image and the ime is 09:20:
I moved the trackBar1 to the left and i see 09:20
And b1 on the hard disk is also 09:20 also same date 02/01/2015
But the Gifs on my hard disk i see they were created from image date 22/01/2015 time 14:10
I mean they created now but the image they were created from is not the same one.
It seems like for some reason b1 is different ? Not sure how.
In the trackBar1 scroll event i have:
private void trackBar1_Scroll(object sender, EventArgs e)
LoadPictureAt(trackBar1.Value, sender);
ConvertedBmp = ConvertTo24(trackBar1FileInfo[trackBar1.Value].FullName);
ConvertedBmp.Save(ConvertedBmpDir + "\\ConvertedBmp.bmp");
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timer1.Stop();
Button1Code();
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b1 = new Bitmap(trackBar1FileInfo[trackBar1.Value].FullName);//ConvertedBmp;
b1.Save(ConvertedBmpDir + "\\b1.bmp");
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I do save b1 as it is in the pictureBox1 same trackBar1 value.
Then in the backgroundworker do event i'm doing:
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With the line: bitmaps = new Bitmap[14]; or without for some reason it's creating the gifs file of something else not the same b1 saved on my hard disk.
The method BitmapToGif is:
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I don't understand why the Gifs it's creating in the loop are different.
This is the get_images_with_clouds method:
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int y;
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