Re: Stupid users (was Re: Is there a term for this?)

[Tony Chung <tonyc -at- tonychung -dot- ca>]

On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 9:47 AM, Phil Snow Leopard
<philstokes03 -at- googlemail -dot- com> wrote:
> Autosave in Lion doesn't save a new copy of the document — it records the changes rather than makes a new copy of the doc. This is very different. It's advantageous in that it saves a lot of space, but its also very difficult to delete those earlier revisions.
>
>  (As I understand it, you can delete the backups of a MS doc if you want while keeping the original. You can't delete the changes in Apple's Autosave except by deleting the document itself...well, that's not entirely true, you can but its a total hack and is a bit arcane for the average user).


The easiest way to delete changes in an MS doc: Save as a different
file. I don't know if Map apps work the same, but that was the known
procedure for cleaning out the cruft from Pagemaker and Word docs back
in the day.

-Tony
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