Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!news-out.readnews.com!transit3.readnews.com!panix!not-for-mail From: Bread Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Losing my religion(?) Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 08:02:22 -0700 Organization: lined up neatly Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <120820121955223103%star@sky.net> <5028a772$0$1490$c3e8da3$1cbc7475@news.astraweb.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1345042943 15667 127.0.0.1 (15 Aug 2012 15:02:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 15:02:23 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Unison/2.1.9 Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:29495 On 2012-08-15 01:05:12 +0000, Király said: > Bread wrote: >> If you're going to mess with a file, duplicate it first. > > What if you're not going to mess with a file? What if you're only going > to have a quick final read through before you fire it off to the > printing company? And when closing the document before sending it off, > it automatically saves, without telling you, the paragraph deletion > that you didn't realize you did? Lock the document. Then it won't save any changes because it won't let you make any changes (without either explicitly unlocking or duplicating). > > I still want to be prompted of *any* changes before a doc is saved. Which is why I think docs should get locked automatically a lot sooner than two weeks - even one day or possibly even every time you open a file. If it were every time you open a file, you'd never be able to edit any file until you explicitly said "okay" once. I could live with that, but I suspect it would annoy a lot of people. It would save some subset of them (those of us who do care about files not being changed unexpectedly), but it would probably annoy more.