[OSX-Users] Re: tidbits on lion, security and ucids

[Hugh Glaser]

Yeah, a real pain.
And real cary.
In fact, in the past I think MS Office (ppt) has done it to me on occasions, but can't reproduce it.
cmd-D (Duplicate) in Finder is your friend - I use that as a matter of course when cloning things.
I really miss that shortcut in Windows.

And while we are at it, what really pisses me off is now when I launch apps, it often have to wait while it automagically re-opens some massive old document that I had actually even closed the window of before quitting last time.
That was a random doc I was looking at last week on some different work.
In fact, it was a confidential doc that I didn't want coming up on my screen when I went to show someone the doc I just clicked on.
Yeah, maybe there is some pref somewhere that controls it, but WTF, as they say.


On 23 Aug 2011, at 08:57, dr. m.c. schraefel wrote:

> This week's tidbits (http://tidbits.com/issue/1090) has a nice overview of the counter-productive bits that bug in lion (http://tidbits.com/article/12412)  and a nice overview (i think) of lion security  (http://tidbits.com/article/12417)
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> One of the issues i had NOT noticed that seems particularly gnarly is the potenial issue with constant saving:
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> Auto Save -- Lion allows applications that support Auto Save to save data automatically without user intervention. Working hand-in-glove with Versions, Auto Save not only prevents users from worrying about losing data by forgetting to save, but also gives them a way to go back in time to earlier versions of a document and revert some or all of the most recently autosaved changes. That is spiffy, but Auto Save can’t be turned off in applications that support it, and its mere presence eliminates a common File menu option: Save As.
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> In pre-Auto Save versions of Mac OS X, you could open a document, immediately choose File > Save As, name the copy, and begin working, leaving the original intact. Now you must open a document, choose File > Duplicate, rename the duplicate, and (optionally) manually close the original in order to work on a copy without affecting the original. Should you forget to duplicate the document immediately, any changes end up automatically saved in the original document; in the old model, no changes are saved until a manual Save or Save As command is issued.
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> Speaking of Auto Save, we’re not fond of the hidden menu you use to access versions 
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> Just fyi. 
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> mc
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