Comments on: Stop “Save As” From Changing Original File in OS X Mountain Lion

By: George Trethewey

George Trethewey — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 18:08:09 +0000

There is a way to apply this to all applications:

defaults write -g NSDocumentSaveAsShouldRevert -bool true

Unfortunately, applications in which you’ve already used Save As… may have saved their own copy of the setting, so you still need to keep an eye out.

By: Emma

Emma — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 19:48:38 +0000

Same here. 10.8.2. In Preview, I hold option, then select Save As, but I don’t get a checkbox for “Keep changes in original document.”

By: A1

A1 — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 19:42:24 +0000

Thanks but had setup the KB shortcut already and used alt and still nada

By: mike

mike — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 15:26:39 +0000

Come and join our thread on Apple Discussions. When a thread reaches 63 pages you know you’ve done something wrong.

https://discussions.apple.com/message/19765852?ac_cid=tw123456#19765852

By: Guest

Guest — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 14:00:06 +0000

The option is only smoke in the eyes: an illusion of safety.
It is NOT that it does not save the changes. It saves the changes while you type and it revert to the original when you save as…

Imagine the application you are using crashes with the Save As dialog open. No new file, of course, but the old one contains the changes. You never saved it, but autosave did.

The real problem here is Autosave and Versions, the dummiest version control implementation ever made by human.

By: B30

B30 — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 06:49:06 +0000

same here: “save as” is possible, but no “keep changes in the original document” option??? (10.8.2)

By: Gilles9

Gilles9 — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 21:55:24 +0000

I don’t see the “keep changes in the original document” option

I can do a “save as”
but I don’t get the full dialog window seen here

By: Gilles9

Gilles9 — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 20:41:21 +0000

Same here
I don’t see this option

By: Gene

Gene — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 20:39:04 +0000

http://osxdaily.com/2012/08/27/enable-save-as-os-x-mountain-lion/

By: Gene

Gene — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 20:38:08 +0000

Why?
Apple is moving OS X toward iOS. In iOS, changes to documents usually are automatically saved.

By: A1

A1 — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 19:10:31 +0000

Hmm can’t see that option anywhere, I’m on 10.8.2 any advice?

By: James Ludtke

James Ludtke — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 16:40:33 +0000

It is a very good sign that Apple listened to its customers, and finally provided a way to “Save As” the original way.

BTW, I did not like auto-save when it first came out. Not to go against the trend, I left it on anyhow. When I finally got tired of the lack of “Save As”, I turned auto-save off, only to find out that I got used to auto-save. So I turned it back on.

Now I can have the old way of “Save As”, and the new way of auto-save.

Good for Apple. If at first you don’t succeed, try again. Also thanks to all the Mac-loving complainers.

By: Roger Beamon

Roger Beamon — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 15:29:42 +0000

Agree with Mark, but now that I’ve got shift+cmd+s envoking “Save As” plus Paul’s suggestion here, I can finally return to my antediluvian use of Pages and Preview.

Thanks Paul.

By: Karl Isselhardt

Karl Isselhardt — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 15:28:27 +0000

I agree with Mark. Why would the behavior of “Save As…” be changed? It has been the same since 1984: If you want to save the document, you “Save…” if you want to keep the original and make a different version, you use “Save As…”!

Is there some amazing benefit to making changes to both that I’m just not seeing?

By: Mark Evans

Mark Evans — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 15:10:05 +0000

What kind of idiot would set the default behavior to change the original file?!?!?