Apple Lion Rant
Jun. 3rd, 2012 06:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stickmakerYou have been warned.
Twice since I began using Lion I have encountered a situation where TextEdit will suddenly pop up a message telling me that the autosave didn't work. Both times I could not save the document manually, either. I created a duplicate of the file. Which then wouldn't save, though this time there were no error messages. Just a complete absence of the file, anywhere, and a warning it hadn't been saved when I tried to close. I finally had to close it without saving.
I next tried pasting into a new document. That worked, but I couldn't save it, either. I threw a screaming fit. I could see my work, edit it just fine, even copy and past it, but could not save it!
I had the idea of creating a new file in Open Office, pasting and saving. That worked! I closed both Apps, took a deep breath, opened Open Office and the new file and copied the material. Then I opened TextEdit and the main file, and pasted.
It worked, thank Ghu (Purple Be His Name).
This happened just as I was about to save and start supper. I am now waiting for my ramen to cool as I type this.
I am not alone in criticizing some of the changes made between the two most recent versions of OS X. Neither am I alone in accusing Apple of taking a functional and reliable text editor and making it something which is neither. This time I was working on a hobby piece. However, the first time I was working on something I hope to sell. I lost several minutes of that work, thanks to this rampant stupidity, and had to recreate it.
Twice since I began using Lion I have encountered a situation where TextEdit will suddenly pop up a message telling me that the autosave didn't work. Both times I could not save the document manually, either. I created a duplicate of the file. Which then wouldn't save, though this time there were no error messages. Just a complete absence of the file, anywhere, and a warning it hadn't been saved when I tried to close. I finally had to close it without saving.
I next tried pasting into a new document. That worked, but I couldn't save it, either. I threw a screaming fit. I could see my work, edit it just fine, even copy and past it, but could not save it!
I had the idea of creating a new file in Open Office, pasting and saving. That worked! I closed both Apps, took a deep breath, opened Open Office and the new file and copied the material. Then I opened TextEdit and the main file, and pasted.
It worked, thank Ghu (Purple Be His Name).
This happened just as I was about to save and start supper. I am now waiting for my ramen to cool as I type this.
I am not alone in criticizing some of the changes made between the two most recent versions of OS X. Neither am I alone in accusing Apple of taking a functional and reliable text editor and making it something which is neither. This time I was working on a hobby piece. However, the first time I was working on something I hope to sell. I lost several minutes of that work, thanks to this rampant stupidity, and had to recreate it.
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Date: 2012-06-09 05:51 pm (UTC)For a less effort-intensive solution, write in something that isn't TextEdit. Clearly that tool has failed to be reliable. You should find another tool.