Re: Temporarily disabling autosave
Re: Temporarily disabling autosave
- Subject: Re: Temporarily disabling autosave
- From: Steve Mills <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 11:10:14 -0500
On Apr 25, 2013, at 11:01:08, Jerry Krinock <email@hidden>
wrote:
> "PDFpen 6.0.2 is now available from Smile. This update includes an option to turn off autosave and versions."
Good. More apps need to offer that ability.
> Hmmmm. Two bug fixes after Autosave and Versions was adopted with great fanfare in 6.0.0.
>
> Indeed, there are some users, some documents, and maybe even some apps for which ("Lion") Auto Save and Versions is not appropriate. Anyhow, I'm glad that you and your marketeers appear to have have thought this through and know what you're doing.
Saving in place is not something most users expect, because it hasn't been done that way on all the common platforms. I can't begin to count the number of times I've opened documents, edited them in some way, not intending to save those changes. Maybe I just needed to, say, find an image in a particular layer of some image editing app, so I hid some layers. That sort of thing. But doing something as simple as quitting means those changes will automatically change my actual document file without even asking if I want to discard them. That's just dangerous. What if some other app is using that file? The autosaved changes *to the actual file* will affect that other app. It's just a horrible idea. Autosave as loss prevention in the event of a crash? Good idea. Autosave to dumb down the user experience? Bad idea.
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