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<blockquote data-quote="Shikarnov" data-source="post: 1362419" data-attributes="member: 49413"><p>Well, with all due respect to the researchers at Apple, I don't find the idea to be quite so brilliant -- which is why I turned it off as soon as I realized what was happening. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>That's a mighty big assumption, I think. As one part of my job, I maintain websites for clients. Sometimes I don't return to the same project more than once every few months when a client has a design change, or content edit that they can't handle themselves for some reason. That's what happened yesterday. I needed to edit a PNG for a Lightbox script. So I open it in Photoshop, and the file is wholly uneditable. "*** is going on?" I'm thinking. So I do some investigating online. The file is locked. Time Machine's the culprit. I grumble and start looking for a fix....</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Sure, I could duplicate it -- but why in the world would I want to pollute my directories with needless copies of things that I'm just going to end up renaming to the original anyway? </p><p></p><p>Prior Operation: Open, modify, save - move onto the next thing.</p><p></p><p>Current Operation: Open, try to modify, bang my head against the wall, close, open Finder, duplicate the file, open the duplicate, modify the duplicate, save the duplicate, close the duplicate, delete the original, rename the duplicate.</p><p></p><p>Surely this isn't the way Apple intended to make things "better"...</p><p></p><p>There must be a terminal command or automator program or something to make this nightmare end?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shikarnov, post: 1362419, member: 49413"] Well, with all due respect to the researchers at Apple, I don't find the idea to be quite so brilliant -- which is why I turned it off as soon as I realized what was happening. That's a mighty big assumption, I think. As one part of my job, I maintain websites for clients. Sometimes I don't return to the same project more than once every few months when a client has a design change, or content edit that they can't handle themselves for some reason. That's what happened yesterday. I needed to edit a PNG for a Lightbox script. So I open it in Photoshop, and the file is wholly uneditable. "*** is going on?" I'm thinking. So I do some investigating online. The file is locked. Time Machine's the culprit. I grumble and start looking for a fix.... Sure, I could duplicate it -- but why in the world would I want to pollute my directories with needless copies of things that I'm just going to end up renaming to the original anyway? Prior Operation: Open, modify, save - move onto the next thing. Current Operation: Open, try to modify, bang my head against the wall, close, open Finder, duplicate the file, open the duplicate, modify the duplicate, save the duplicate, close the duplicate, delete the original, rename the duplicate. Surely this isn't the way Apple intended to make things "better"... There must be a terminal command or automator program or something to make this nightmare end? [/QUOTE]
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