Re: Autosave in place - common use case that makes me hate it
Re: Autosave in place - common use case that makes me hate it
- Subject: Re: Autosave in place - common use case that makes me hate it
- From: Alex Zavatone <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 20:50:50 -0400
We had a problem recently in that I was telling my team members to duplicate a PNG file be doing a save as and turning the alpha channel off. They were in Lion and you couldn't Save As out of Preview and name a file a new name and turn off the alpha channel.
In the time it took him to try and figure out how to do that, I saved all the files without the alpha, zipped them and mailed them to him from Snow Leopard. But still, we shouldn't have had to do that and our team (besides me) has not upgraded to Mountain Lion yet.
All this pushing of simplified metaphors since Lion has really ended up in loads of wasted time on our end and less productivity.
Hopefully we can all upgrade to ML next week remove some of the pain and wasted time.
On Sep 21, 2012, at 7:24 PM, Michael Vannorsdel wrote:
> I think if you have really good undo support people find autosave less of an annoyance. Most people took advantage of the save-before-experimenting method because several apps had bad or nonexistent undo support so saving was the only way to reliably go back.
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> On Sep 21, 2012, at 10:05 AM, Uli Kusterer wrote:
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>> I run into it as well. But less and less. It's the same as the reversal of the scroll wheel direction: It's hard to undo more than a decade of rote memorization. But it's possible It's an aspect of having to manually save that we power users have taken advantage of as a feature.
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>> The real world doesn't work like that. New users don't expect it to work like that. For everyone but us "damaged souls", this is actually an improvement. If you wanted to scribble additional annotations into a drawing, you'd make a photocopy of it. On the computer, you just have to train yourself to duplicate the file before you do these changes.
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