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kalleboo on Aug 4, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: OS X Mountain Lion: Data Loss via 'Save As'

Or choose Duplicate on the old file, don't save the copy/give it a name, and do the work in there.

Since Lion, OS X also internally autosaves files that have yet to be saved. I've had 3-4 "Untitled" TextEdit files that I haven't saved hanging around for months, across reboots.

kstenerud on Aug 4, 2012 [–]

I don't mind some internal backup-copy (including undo/redo state) being made of what's currently on the screen so that it can recover from a crash, but actually modifying the file I loaded from when I never told it to save is just bad, bad, bad.

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