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<blockquote data-quote="J.Fo" data-source="post: 1349123" data-attributes="member: 66834"><p>Don't cancel it. I have an entry level iMac out of the current lineup. When I bought it, it ran Snow Leopard. I upgraded to Lion the day it was released and have been running it ever since. I can tell you that Lion runs great on my machine. I never think to myself, "****, this thing is slow. I wish I had Snow Leopard back." That was even true when I only had 4GB installed on it. (I have 16GB in it now.)</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Here's what I suggest you do. Before you make any changes to the document, duplicate it and then save. Then you can rename your file and keep the original as is. </p><p></p><p>This has tripped me up a few times already because it's backwards from how it used to work. In the old days, you could open a file, make changes to it, and as long as you didn't click Save, the changes wouldn't stick. Once you were done modifying the document, you could just click Save As, rename the file and the original would not be touched.</p><p></p><p>With AutoSave, that's no longer the case, because the system is automatically saving the changes you make regardless of whether you tell it to or not. So, if you open something like a template for a letter and make changes, the system will save the changes to the original file. Hence the need to duplicate it first.</p><p></p><p>It's not really any more complicated than how it used to work; it's just different. It requires a slight rethinking of your workflow to make use of a new feature (AutoSave) effectively.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The reopen feature is one that I've had some difficulty getting used to. On the one hand, it's great in iOS, where I never really think about shutting down applications. I may switch to a different app, and eventually come back to the one I was using before, in which case I want to pick up where I left off. On a Mac application though, that's not always the case. I <em>am</em> conscious of quitting applications there, and when I do, in my mind, I'm also closing the window so that it doesn't appear again the next time I open the app. It's annoying for some reason to see spreadsheet I was done working with appear when I open Numbers simply because I didn't close the window before I quit. </p><p></p><p>The Resume feature is one that I do appreciate though. It is nice to be able to restart my Mac should the need arise, and not have to worry about reopening all the applications I had running. I like the idea of picking up exactly where I left off. The only annoying part about this is that it can take longer to get my machine up and running again while I wait for all those apps to load. This, I think, is a case where the hardware is the limiting factor. Someday, when all of our Macs come with solid state hard drives as a standard feature, and all our apps can open in a fraction of a second, I think many of us will be less annoyed by this feature.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="J.Fo, post: 1349123, member: 66834"] Don't cancel it. I have an entry level iMac out of the current lineup. When I bought it, it ran Snow Leopard. I upgraded to Lion the day it was released and have been running it ever since. I can tell you that Lion runs great on my machine. I never think to myself, "****, this thing is slow. I wish I had Snow Leopard back." That was even true when I only had 4GB installed on it. (I have 16GB in it now.) Here's what I suggest you do. Before you make any changes to the document, duplicate it and then save. Then you can rename your file and keep the original as is. This has tripped me up a few times already because it's backwards from how it used to work. In the old days, you could open a file, make changes to it, and as long as you didn't click Save, the changes wouldn't stick. Once you were done modifying the document, you could just click Save As, rename the file and the original would not be touched. With AutoSave, that's no longer the case, because the system is automatically saving the changes you make regardless of whether you tell it to or not. So, if you open something like a template for a letter and make changes, the system will save the changes to the original file. Hence the need to duplicate it first. It's not really any more complicated than how it used to work; it's just different. It requires a slight rethinking of your workflow to make use of a new feature (AutoSave) effectively. The reopen feature is one that I've had some difficulty getting used to. On the one hand, it's great in iOS, where I never really think about shutting down applications. I may switch to a different app, and eventually come back to the one I was using before, in which case I want to pick up where I left off. On a Mac application though, that's not always the case. I [I]am[/I] conscious of quitting applications there, and when I do, in my mind, I'm also closing the window so that it doesn't appear again the next time I open the app. It's annoying for some reason to see spreadsheet I was done working with appear when I open Numbers simply because I didn't close the window before I quit. The Resume feature is one that I do appreciate though. It is nice to be able to restart my Mac should the need arise, and not have to worry about reopening all the applications I had running. I like the idea of picking up exactly where I left off. The only annoying part about this is that it can take longer to get my machine up and running again while I wait for all those apps to load. This, I think, is a case where the hardware is the limiting factor. Someday, when all of our Macs come with solid state hard drives as a standard feature, and all our apps can open in a fraction of a second, I think many of us will be less annoyed by this feature. [/QUOTE]
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