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Prevent TextEdit from Locking Documents?

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  Prevent TextEdit from Locking Documents? Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2012-04-05 17:20 -0400
    Re: Prevent TextEdit from Locking Documents? Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2012-04-05 15:35 -0700
    Re: Prevent TextEdit from Locking Documents? me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2012-04-05 23:04 +0000
      Re: Prevent TextEdit from Locking Documents? Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2012-04-05 19:06 -0400
    Re: Prevent TextEdit from Locking Documents? Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-04-05 21:37 -0400
    Re: Prevent TextEdit from Locking Documents? Ian Hartley <Contact.News@sky.com> - 2012-04-06 13:33 +0100
      Re: Prevent TextEdit from Locking Documents? Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2012-04-06 14:10 -0400
        Re: Prevent TextEdit from Locking Documents? me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2012-04-06 21:50 +0000
          Re: Prevent TextEdit from Locking Documents? Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2012-04-06 18:45 -0400
            Re: Prevent TextEdit from Locking Documents? soniat@gmail.com - 2012-09-02 06:17 -0700

#8940 — Prevent TextEdit from Locking Documents?

When I open a document with TextEdit I do not want it to be locked,
even if I last edited the document 10 years ago. I don't see anything
in the preferences to prevent locking of documents. Suggestions most
welcome, and TIA.

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#8944

In article <050420121720323423%star@sky.net>, Davoud <star@sky.net> 
wrote:

> When I open a document with TextEdit I do not want it to be locked,
> even if I last edited the document 10 years ago. I don't see anything
> in the preferences to prevent locking of documents. Suggestions most
> welcome, and TIA.

I don't know about TextEdit, but when I open a document in BBEdit and 
it's locked, it's usually a file permissions restriction rather than the 
Finder's Locked attribute being set.  If the Finder says the file is 
locked, I don't know of a way to override that setting in TextEdit.  Nor 
do I think it's a good idea.  What good would such a setting be if you 
could override it in software?  AFAIK, you have to clear the Locked 
attribute first before you edit the file.

If it's permissions, then you can use another editor that allows for 
checking file permissions before editing.  BBEdit does this.  AFAIK, 
TextEdit does not.

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#8951

Davoud <star@sky.net> wrote:
> When I open a document with TextEdit I do not want it to be locked,
> even if I last edited the document 10 years ago. I don't see anything
> in the preferences to prevent locking of documents. Suggestions most
> welcome, and TIA.

Running Lion?

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#8952

Davoud:
> > When I open a document with TextEdit I do not want it to be locked,
> > even if I last edited the document 10 years ago. I don't see anything
> > in the preferences to prevent locking of documents. Suggestions most
> > welcome, and TIA.

Király:
> Running Lion?

Yep.

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#8965

On 04-05-2012 17:20, Davoud wrote:
> When I open a document with TextEdit I do not want it to be locked,
> even if I last edited the document 10 years ago. I don't see anything
> in the preferences to prevent locking of documents. Suggestions most
> welcome, and TIA.

It's irritating, but it's only one extra click to get past it.

Maybe if you run a cron job to touch every file daily ?

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#8983

On 05/04/2012 22:20, Davoud wrote:
> When I open a document with TextEdit I do not want it to be locked,
> even if I last edited the document 10 years ago. I don't see anything
> in the preferences to prevent locking of documents. Suggestions most
> welcome, and TIA.
>

Is it todo with Preferences > Time Machine > Options Lock documents ? 
after last edit being ticked.

Ian

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#9003

Davoud:
> > ... I don't see anything
> > in the preferences to prevent locking of documents. Suggestions most
> > welcome, and TIA.

Ian Hartley:
> Is it todo with Preferences > Time Machine > Options Lock documents ? 
> after last edit being ticked.

Thank you, thank you! I would never have looked there.

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#9011

Davoud <star@sky.net> wrote:
> > Is it todo with Preferences > Time Machine > Options Lock documents ? 
> > after last edit being ticked.
> 
> Thank you, thank you! I would never have looked there.

I agree that that's a dumb place to put that preference.

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#9013

Ian Hartley:
> > > Is it todo with Preferences > Time Machine > Options Lock documents ? 
> > > after last edit being ticked.

Davoud:
> > Thank you, thank you! I would never have looked there.

Király:
> I agree that that's a dumb place to put that preference.

For the stated reason I am happy to have Mr. Hartley's reply, and I
have given no thought to where such a preference should be located, if
such a preference is needed at all. Thus I don't know if that's a dumb
place or not.

I haven't followed the various auto-save threads and I don't know
anything about it--what its purpose is, and the like. I know that I
don't like the loss of Command-D as a "Don't Save" shortcut for a
TextEdit, as I frequently make temporary notes in TE that I have no
need to save and I was quite accustomed to Cmd-W Cmd-D. The extra mouse
or trackpad click is an annoyance.

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#11801

> > > > Is it todo with Preferences > Time Machine > Options Lock documents ? 

just going to clarify:

Finder > System Preferences > Time Machine > Options Lock documents

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