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I thought it might be useful to give this subject its own thread rather than have it buried in a Catalina thread - mostly because U just discovered something new related to that.
History (please let me know of corrections to the history):
"Save As..." had been an option under the File menu in macOS for as long as I can remember.
I use that command many, many times a day.
When Apple came out with macOS 10.7, Lion, the "Save As..." option had disappeared causing a bit of an uproar in the Apple community
What happened to Save As? - Apple Community
In macOS, Mountain Lion, Apple brought "Save As..." back, but not in the way it was originally implemented in macOS 10.6 and earlier, but in a somewhat awkward way by having to select using the option key - when that was pressed, the File>Duplicate option changed to the "Save As..." option.
Then, eventually it was discovered, that one could set up a keyboard shortcut that brought the "Save As..." option back permanently under the "File" drop down (between "Save" and "Duplicate" at least for macOS 10.11 (ElCapitan) and 10.14 (Mojave).
That keyboard shortcut does not work for macOS 10.15 (Catalina), for that OS one has to use the Option key to bring up Save As... as an alternative to "Duplicate"
So much for the history part.
What I noticed today on ElCapitan, with the keyboard shortcut for Save As... not enabled, is that "Save As... is strangely enough actually an option in Apple Mail under the "File" menu drop down. "Save" is dimmed out and "Save As..." is shown to use the normal "Save" shortcuts.
The "Duplicate" option doesn't exist in Apple Mail at all.
History (please let me know of corrections to the history):
"Save As..." had been an option under the File menu in macOS for as long as I can remember.
I use that command many, many times a day.
When Apple came out with macOS 10.7, Lion, the "Save As..." option had disappeared causing a bit of an uproar in the Apple community
What happened to Save As? - Apple Community
In macOS, Mountain Lion, Apple brought "Save As..." back, but not in the way it was originally implemented in macOS 10.6 and earlier, but in a somewhat awkward way by having to select using the option key - when that was pressed, the File>Duplicate option changed to the "Save As..." option.
Then, eventually it was discovered, that one could set up a keyboard shortcut that brought the "Save As..." option back permanently under the "File" drop down (between "Save" and "Duplicate" at least for macOS 10.11 (ElCapitan) and 10.14 (Mojave).
That keyboard shortcut does not work for macOS 10.15 (Catalina), for that OS one has to use the Option key to bring up Save As... as an alternative to "Duplicate"
So much for the history part.
What I noticed today on ElCapitan, with the keyboard shortcut for Save As... not enabled, is that "Save As... is strangely enough actually an option in Apple Mail under the "File" menu drop down. "Save" is dimmed out and "Save As..." is shown to use the normal "Save" shortcuts.
The "Duplicate" option doesn't exist in Apple Mail at all.