I have just had a play with the revert feature. Basically I created four different versions of short document all with the same text except to say they said first version, second version etc. I think the problem is that the revert feature console has some un labelled button next to the file version which is confusingly On described by voiceover as a vertical slider. As far as I can see there is no way of sliding anything unless it relates to the date. Of course all my document versions were created today. However by constantly bringing up window chooser to switch to the revert console I found I was able to retreat to previous versions of my document by pressing the first of these unlabelled buttons. To see the impact of hitting this button you need to bring up Window Chooser again.. Essentially when I brought up window chooser I had three items. 1. Revert Console 2. The previous Version of the document brought up by hitting the un labelled button.. 3. The current version of the document.
I found that by repeatedly hitting the un labelled button I was able to eventually march the document in window 2 back to the original version of the document I created. In window 3 I always had the latest version of the document. Thats as far as I took my playing with this but I note that there are also restore and done buttons on the Revert console which presumably do what they say they do. am a little tired tonight but if I have more of a play later tomorrow I might be able to offer more help. David Griffith On 24 Nov 2014, at 19:50, Eugenia Firth <gigifi...@me.com> wrote: > > Hi there > You have my condolences on that because this is happened to me too. In my > case, my latest disaster happened in pages. Do you have a time machine > backup? At least in Mavericks, the ability to get previous versionwas > somewhat limited. Sometimes you can get the last one opened by going into the > file menu and trying from there. But it doesn't always get what you want. I > haven't tried it yet in Yosemite to see if it's better. > Gigi > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Nov 24, 2014, at 11:58 AM, Phil Halton <philh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Is the restore prior versions functionality accessible with VO? Does anyone >> know how auto save and versioning works on the Mac and how we can prevent >> disasters like the one I experienced today? >> >> Today something got screwed up and I lost some work in a text edit >> document. I tried browsing prior versions as the last resort and couldn’t >> make much good headway in the version browsing dialog. >> I wound up having to retype as best I could from memory the absolutely >> brilliant;-) writing I had lost. >> That’s a real problem and I think there’s got to be a better way. Any help >> out there? >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
