On Tue, 20 Dec 2011 22:24:03 +0100, Berend Hasselman wrote:
Autosave beyond user control means that saves can happen with wrong/incomplete/inadvertent versions.
I don't think this is a bad thing. A document may be in an incomplete or inconsistent state, but that doesn't mean I'm ok with losing that state if my app crashes. And if I want to make sure that the current "good" state is preserved, I can just do "Save a Version". I don't see that my control is lost with Auto Save.
(It is quite easy to inadvertently change something in a pdf in Preview and unless the pdf is not locked this will be saved).
Yeah, but you can always do "Revert Document" to go back.
I guess I'm in the minority here because I love Auto Save...
* I don't lose work because I forgot to hit Cmd+S every 5 minutes and my app crashed * If I need to log out or restart, I don't get a half-dozen "Do you want to save this?" dialogs * I can make a change and save the document, knowing I can revert the change if I need to
Of course, some apps (like TextMate) already support some variation of auto save, but it's nice having it standardized as an OS-supported feature *everywhere*.
Trevor