On Mon, 2011-09-19 at 14:39 +0300, Adrian Goldman wrote: > Of course this has to be the case. I think most of us walk around with with > mobile phones that have memory and processing power more powerful than all of > the computers available before 1990. > > Some of the things that seem difficult in Lion and are nanny-state-ish such > as automatic file versioning (not that I am running Lion yet, mind) - well is > it the case that all of the experts on the CCP4BB have _never_ deleted a file > they didn't mean to delete? _Never_ had Word (O, Coot) crash taking with it > 6 hours worth of changes that should have been saved but weren't? > > If so, I feel humbled because I have made these mistakes and more. > > Adrian
There is nothing nanny-state-ish (or indeed new) about automatic file versioning. VMS (which was the major operating system that CCP4 targetted in the pre-Unix days) had it in the 1980's and I don't recall anyone moaning about it at the time. As you say, it could be a lifesaver if you overwrote something by mistake. VMS allowed you to purge old versions completely though, whereas Lion doesn't: that is the difference. Regards, Peter. -- Peter Keller Tel.: +44 (0)1223 353033 Global Phasing Ltd., Fax.: +44 (0)1223 366889 Sheraton House, Castle Park, Cambridge CB3 0AX United Kingdom
