On Jul 26, 2021 at 4:52:01 PM MST, "JF Mezei" wrote
<BUHLI.7477$nj3....@fx15.iad>:
> On 2021-07-26 00:30, Snit wrote:
>
>> As far as I know it will write to Raspberry.txt -- and that name will show in
>> the title bar as soon as you do the Save As. re there any exceptions to this?
>
> Just a question that I lost trust in it.
The way it works makes sense to me, but we all think differently.
> I've had times where I edited
> chocolate, started to make changes and wanted to save progressive
> backups while still editing chocolate and wasn't sure what I was editing
> and when done wanted to save to chocolate.
If you save it to a new file it is a new file. Not sure what else you would
expect.
> (and in the old days , save as didn't change what document was being
> edited and subsequent save went to original.
Do you have an example of that?
> And in some apple apps, even though didn't issue a "change", you can't
> quit without reverting the saved version which is so unnatural for
> documeht based apps.
Not sure what you mean -- do you have an example?
>> Not sure what you mean by "wreck"? I think they removed it for a bit in favor
>> of "Duplicate", which keeps both windows open but otherwise works much the
>> same. Duplicate might work better for you in terms of any confusion you have
>> on this.
>
> I've never used duplicate within an app because not all apps have it and
> I much prefer doing this in Finder and knowing exactly what saved
> version I am copying to another file.
When you use Duplicate you get just that... but it is true it is not always
available.
> Call me old schooll.
>> "Save a Copy" saves a copy without changing the document you are in. So:
>
> Thanks. To me, Save As and Save a Copy are identical, because to me
> "Save" is the operation of writing to disk.
Think of the window you are in. Save As is changing the window you are in to
that. Save a copy copies the file.
> But Save As also means Save
> to another file and then open other file for editing.
Save As a new file... does not delete the old. It is not just rename (you can
do that in many apps, too).
>
> And I am always unsure if all apps behave the way you describe or not.
> (I don,t trust Adobe ones that much).
Not all have all the options, which I can see as being confusing.