MacVoices #12114: Matt Neuburg Takes Control of Using Mountain Lion
Matt Neuburg is back to help us all Take Control of Using Mountain Lion, and does just that with a new book that will help you get the most out of Apple’s newest version of the Mac OS. Matt discusses what Apple did that surprised him the most, the return of a lost feature, and new options for managing your documents. Matt explains how Mountain Lion has a variety of feature enhancements that amount to “taking the edge off Lion.” The discussion takes a philosophical turn as Matt puts Mountain Lion in perspective with past and possible future versions of the OS.
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TidBITS Contributing Editor Matt Neuburg has been writing for the publication since 1991, concentrating on issues surrounding word processing, databases and text organization programs, scripting and innovative programming systems, and a variety of utilities. He has written some popular freeware programs, such as MemoryStick and NotLight. He has created the online documentation for a number of applications, such as Script Debugger and Opal. He has written books about programming Frontier, REALbasic, and AppleScript, and is the author of various Take Control ebooks.
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Question for Matt about "Save As." If I set the "Ask before saving changes" checkbox, open a document, edit it, and then choose "Save As," a copy of the document is made containing the original plus changes. The title in Pages (which is the program I'm testing with) changes to the "save as" file. If I now go to Open Recent and open the original document...it, too, has been saved with all the changes. I can use "Revert to Previous Save" to get back my original document, but if I don't remember to do that, or if I don't realize the original has been overwritten, I might be rudely surprised the next time I go to use that original document!
It looks like they have improved things a lot, as you say in the podcast, but they didn't quite get the last detail. "Save As" ought to automatically revert the original document to the last saved version, IMO.
@watsona Very nice description. It might be worth submitting this to Apple as a bug report, since saving the "dirty" part of the document into the original without asking seems to violate the "ask" checkbox. Moreover, I think this is, ironically, a change from Lion, which *did* ask you what you wanted done with a "dirty" document when you chose Duplicate, IIRC.