Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jolly Roger Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Leaving Snow Leopard (was Re: What's the Verdict on FileVault?) Date: 3 Mar 2017 16:03:14 GMT Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: <0001HW.D4DAAC7100BBB46BB02919BF@news.astraweb.com> <58b894f0$0$1364$c3e8da3$1cbc7475@news.astraweb.com> <58b8c73d$0$29159$c3e8da3$38634283@news.astraweb.com> X-Trace: individual.net N55kHVKKiJeMC+e178Yh8g/Cpe1BKoasWFtZ01oT097/dG41L8 Cancel-Lock: sha1:WMhRGqHig6bEH/G9rnYx4KvqlPI= Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Darwin) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:101729 On 2017-03-03, dorayme wrote: > In article , > Patty Winter wrote: > >> In article <58b8c73d$0$29159$c3e8da3$38634283@news.astraweb.com>, >> JF Mezei wrote: >> > >> >When you inadventently pressed a key on ketboard and don't realise you >> >changed the file, it gets saved without your permission and changes its >> >"saved" date in the file info. This is unwanted by many people. >> > >> >So whenever you open a file for viewing, you ALWAYS have to REVERT >> >before you close it to make sure. >> >> Huh? What if you *didn't* press a key inadvertently? In that case >> (which is nearly always), if you revert to the previous version, >> you'll lose your most recent changes. > > If you *open* a file *for viewing*, if you do not change *and* save > (somehow inadvertently), reverting should save the file as it was > before opening it. That makes no sense at all. If you open a document and don't make changes, there's no need to revert since nothing was changed. -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR