Comments on: The Benefits Of The New AutoSave Option In OS X Lion [Mac]

By: Bakari Chavanu

Bakari Chavanu — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 22:00:00 +0000

Yes, James, the particular type of Auto Save described in the article are particular to Apple software. I’m not if the feature has been added to iWork documents yet.

By: Bakari Chavanu

Bakari Chavanu — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 22:00:00 +0000

Appreciate the feedback.

By: Bakari

Bakari — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 21:58:00 +0000

Nutz, thanks for that clarification.

By: Oliver Taylor-Griffiths

Oliver Taylor-Griffiths — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 17:48:00 +0000

Thanks for the info. Very helpful.

By: James

James — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 12:49:00 +0000

So the Auto Save Feature right now it seems is just for Mac safe apps ex iWork’s or text edit and preview…correct? I was trying to see if I had those same functions for my creative suite it wasn’t there…

By: michal G

michal G — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 11:51:00 +0000

try it over the network… but first do a backup ; )

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 02:50:00 +0000

In the article, you say, “With AutoSave, all the saved versions of your document are saved in the
background, where you can review and retrieve them like you do with
documents and files in Time Machine.”

Not exactly! Autosave just saves the changes in each file. This allows it to be more efficient and save HUGE amounts of space. If multiple versions of files were saved, I can’t imagine how people would cope. Not just double the space required for each document, but several times the space, for EVERY DOCUMENT. It saves the changes in an invisible folder called, “.DocumentRevisions-V100″, similar to Spotlight’s “.Spotlight-V100″.