Re: Browsing and restoring prior versions in textedit, pages etc

2014-11-24 Thread Phil Halton
Having spent a little more time using the version control dialog/window, I have found that you can review previous versions either by setting the slider control to a version and then using the window chooser to bring up that version window, or, by restoring a copy of the currently selected versi

Re: Browsing and restoring prior versions in textedit, pages etc

2014-11-24 Thread Phil Halton
I did the same thing just a few minutes ago, creating four versions of a document with a single line of text saying, “this is line x” where x is the version #, and doing a manual save after each change to x. I have found the following very accessible means of browsing and restoring previous ver

Re: Browsing and restoring prior versions in textedit, pages etc

2014-11-24 Thread David Griffith
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 versi

Re: Browsing and restoring prior versions in textedit, pages etc

2014-11-24 Thread Eugenia Firth
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 int

Browsing and restoring prior versions in textedit, pages etc

2014-11-24 Thread Phil Halton
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 prio