{"id":3786,"date":"2011-09-22T08:15:20","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T13:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=3786"},"modified":"2011-09-22T08:16:23","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T13:16:23","slug":"beware-of-versions-and-auto-save-in-10-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/22\/beware-of-versions-and-auto-save-in-10-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware of Versions and Auto Save in 10.7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shapeof.com\/archives\/2011\/09\/beware_of_versions_and_autosave_in_10.7.html\">Gus Mueller<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/shapeof.com\/archives\/2011\/09\/beware_of_versions_and_autosave_in_10.7.html\"><p>You open up the PSD in Preview, make a minor edit to it such as adding a little text to it or draw a couple of red lines. The intention is to select all, copy, and go to your email app to paste it into a message. You'll just undo the changes or close it without saving later on.<\/p>\n<p>In the background, when you left Preview it autosaved the file and destroyed all the layers. You even quit Preview without thinking, so you didn't get a chance to decline saving it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Auto Save will be helpful for most users, but it&rsquo;s also almost guaranteed to make me lose data one of these days. For more than 20 years I&rsquo;ve been opening documents and making changes that I have no intention of saving. After working in another window or application for a while, I&rsquo;ll go back, close the document, and click &ldquo;Don&rsquo;t Save&rdquo; when it asks. Lion&rsquo;s Auto Save would instead write those changes to disk without asking. Sure, the old version would be accessible (for a while), but I&rsquo;d have to remember to go and revert the document. Or, I suppose, remember to do things the Lion way and duplicate the document before making changes I don&rsquo;t intend to save. So far I&rsquo;ve rarely remembered to do that, but I&rsquo;ve been saved by the fact that the documents I was editing were stored in Git or EagleFiler, which alerted me to the changes I&rsquo;d unintentionally made. I prefer the old-style Auto Save (like is available in BBEdit), where you can get back unsaved changes if there&rsquo;s a crash, but it doesn&rsquo;t overwrite your files unless you say so.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gus Mueller: You open up the PSD in Preview, make a minor edit to it such as adding a little text to it or draw a couple of red lines. The intention is to select all, copy, and go to your email app to paste it into a message. You'll just undo the changes or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3786"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3789,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3786\/revisions\/3789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}