Re: Text Edit and Dropbox

2011-09-22 Thread John Sanfilippo
I confidently press command q to exit and save my already named document. I use command s when the document is new and I want to give it a name. hth, John Sanfilippo On Sep 22, 2011, at 8:02 AM, Paul Erkens wrote: Hi John Filipo, So, what you're saying is: in text edit, hit command q to save t

Re: Text Edit and Dropbox

2011-09-22 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi John Filipo, So, what you're saying is: in text edit, hit command q to save the file and quit, and don't use save a version. Is that right? If you don't want to make use of versions, does this mean at present, that the only thing to remember is that you don't have to save your text edit work

Re: Text Edit and Dropbox

2011-09-21 Thread John Sanfilippo
Well, it appears to be the way Lion works now. Command s saves a version, though I've never been able to find these alternates, and command q simply saves and exits. That's how it works. I do not understand any more than that. js On Sep 21, 2011, at 12:26 PM, Paul Erkens wrote: Hi John Sanfi

Re: Text Edit and Dropbox

2011-09-21 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi John Sanfilippo, This is interesting. I thought that, when quitting text edit, you should always do a command s, to make sure that the latest changes are saved into the file. What is the difference between saving a version with command s, or quitting text edit and hoping the last changes are

Re: Text Edit and Dropbox

2011-09-21 Thread John Sanfilippo
I do the same thing, but allow some time to elapse. It takes a little time for the files to update. I've learned to avoid pressing command s which saves a version. Just command q to close text edit and save the current changes. js On Sep 20, 2011, at 5:21 AM, David Hole wrote: Hi folks. I h

Text Edit and Dropbox

2011-09-20 Thread David Hole
Hi folks. I have a weird issue here. I use both windows and macs, and have files in my Dropbox When editing a text file in Text Edit on my Lion-machine, and saves it, the changes isn't reflected when I go to my windows machine and look at it. Does anyone here have the same issue and have solved i

Re: versioning in text edit and Dropbox

2011-08-15 Thread Jessica and Goldina
hey Mark thanks so much! going to the window chooser after VO spacing on browse all versions did the trick. I was able to see the vertical splitter and restore back to a new version. so neat! and regarding the dock…did I say VO space? urgh…I meant VO d lol. my mind was clearly somewhere else!

Re: versioning in text edit and Dropbox

2011-08-14 Thread Jeffrey Wheatley
Is it possible to disable versioning with Text Edit when saving to Drop Box? Regards, Jeff On Aug 12, 2011, at 7:34 PM, Marc Workman wrote: > Jessica, > > That's right. The version browsing controls do not come up automatically for > me either. I feel like it used to when I first played arou