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Related Posts:Get Save As back on Mountain Lion’s File menu easily and without hacks
Much rejoicing accompanied the news that Mountain Lion brought back the “Save As…” option (which had been taken away in Lion and replaced with the not-nearly-the-same-thing “Duplicate” command). Unfortunately, Save As was relegated to a sub-menu which could only be seen if you held down the Option key, or you could use the not-very-convenient keyboard shortcut Command+Shift+Option+S.
For some reason, that keyboard shortcut never worked for me, so I decided to remap it using System Preferences.
Since I am never, ever, ever going to use the “Duplicate” item, I decided that I would remap “Duplicate” to something else, and restore Command+Shift+S back to its rightful spot as “Save As…”
I went to System Preferences » Keyboard » Keyboard Shortcuts and selected “All Applications” on the right side. Then I clicked the plus-sign under the right column and added “Duplicate” for “All Applications” to be the keyboard shortcut Command+Shift+Option+D (aka “I am never going to use this shortcut and don’t want to press it accidentally”).
Then I did the exact same thing, except this time I used “Save As…” for the menu. Note that both “Save” and “As” must be capitalized, and you must use a proper ellipsis character at the end. On a Mac with the US-English keyboard, you can get this by holding down the Option key and typing a semi-colon.
Voilà! This will now work in every Mac application which has a Duplicate and/or Save As… menu. If an app does not have one of those menus, it will just ignore the keyboard assignment. You could also assign this for specific apps if you only want to use it in certain apps.
An unexpected but very pleasant side effect of making this change is that OS X makes the “Save As…” menu item visible again even without holding down the Option key.
Before (no Save As… visible):
After (welcome back old friend!):
Quite frankly, I think I would have paid $ 20 for this alone.
If you don’t mind Apple’s suggested keyboard shortcut for Save As… but would like it to show up on the menus, all you have to do is rename the Duplicate menu item (as described above). Once that was renamed, the “Save As…” menu item appeared. I only added the custom keyboard shortcut for that because I wanted it to respond to Command+Shift+S as it had always done before Lion.
Update: Great tip from ‘rbascuas’ in the comments: if you remap “Duplicate” to “Shift+Command+Option+S” then “Duplicate” will be hidden (until you hold down the Option key) and “Save As…” will still be shown. That is even better because then I don’t even have to see the Duplicate command, unless I want to use it, which I never will.
Get Save As back on Mountain Lion’s File menu easily and without hacks originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Sun, 29 Jul 2012 23:50:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Related Posts:Lion’s Auto Save vs. Save As
Apple’s OS X Lion introduced Auto Save, and eliminated the Save As feature from several apps as a result. Not everyone is happy about the switch, including Pierre at Betalogue:
I have already talked about the totally unnecessary (in my view) elimination of the ‘Save As…’ command in Apple applications, including the iWork suite. The ‘Duplicate’ command that replaces it is simply not a good enough replacement, and the change irremediably breaks well-established workflows that cannot be adapted to the new command.”
Amen, Pierre. He goes on to illustrate the various stumbling blocks that Auto Save and its Duplicate feature introduced. It’s worth a read.
[Via Daring Fireball]
Lion’s Auto Save vs. Save As originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Thu, 29 Mar 2012 13:35:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Related Posts:Mountain Lion’s Gatekeeper adds additional security options to OS X
With the many updates and new features announced for the upcoming OS X release of Mountain Lion, one may have slipped by, but it’s an important feature. It’s also likely to become controversial.
Gatekeeper gives users some extra security when running third party software. Apple says Gatekeeper will help prevent users from “unknowingly downloading and installing malicious software.” The system preference has three levels of security. One only allows you to install apps from the Mac App Store. A second level allows installation of apps from what Apple calls “identified developers.” Apple is starting up a program that basically allows developers to have digital signing of their apps. The lowest level of security allows apps to be installed from any source, but OS X will warn you if the app is not digitally signed.
What Gatekeeper doesn’t do is protect you against malware and viruses, which admittedly have not been a big problem on the Mac platform. Apple does have some built in tools to identify potentially harmful programs, but sometimes the problems can get ahead of Apple implementing a solution. Of course, Windows faces similar challenges, but on a much larger scale.
Gatekeeper is in the recently released developer preview, but it is not activated. AppleInsider reports that it can be turned on by using the new OS X system policy control command-line tool “spctl(8)”.
It will be interesting to see if Gatekeeper matures and adds features by the time Mountain Lion is released in late summer. We’ll do a deeper dive on Gatekeeper and its possible implications for the Mac platform later on.
Mountain Lion’s Gatekeeper adds additional security options to OS X originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Related Posts:Emulate Lion’s Versions in Microsoft Word
Microsoft Word does not support Lion’s “Versions” feature yet, but there’s no reason to panic. There are a few options that you can use to cobble together a work- around until the Mac BU team updates the Office suite.
Also worth mentioning: although I am focusing on Microsoft Word, the same technique can be used in just about any word processing or text editing application.
“Does the app provide any auto-save settings?”The first thing to check is whether the application that you are using offers any auto-save or auto-recover options, even if it doesn’t support Versions specifically. Microsoft Word offers two auto-save options.
To find them, launch Word, then go to Preferences -> Save and check the options shown below:
The middle underlined option is the most important: it says to save auto-recover information every minute. I think the default is every 10 minutes, but a lot can change in 10 minutes.
The top checkbox is optional, but creating a backup means that you have another way to recover if something goes wrong. Options never hurt. These backups are stored in the same directory as the original, and the filenames end in “~” which is a long-standing convention for backup file names.
The third is also optional, but personally I prefer the older .doc format simply because it’s more compatible with other non-Microsoft applications. The XML-based .docx format also got a bad rap previously for compatibility issues with Dropbox, although if you’re running the current version of the cloud storage utility you shouldn’t have any problems.
(That said, .docx is the better format, not to mention the more modern format. I think of the “.doc or .docx?” choice sort of like choosing between .mp3 or .m4a: the newer formats have technical advantages, but not as many applications support them. The difference, of course, is that it’s usually pretty simple to convert between .doc and .docx.)
“Where does the app store files?”Some applications automatically store files in a certain folder structure, and you can’t move them (at least not without getting into creating links, which may or may not work well). Text editors and word processors, however, generally let you choose where to store files you create; Office also has settings for default folders for saving and auto-recovery under Preferences -> File Locations:
Note that setting the default for “Documents” does not mean that you can’t change it for individual files later, it just tells Microsoft Office where to start when opening or saving new files.
You can also change the location of the AutoRecover files. I put mine into ~/Dropbox/Backups/Microsoft Office/ because if the computer I’m on dies completely, I can access the data from any other Dropbox-connected account. Is this an unlikely scenario/edge case? Absolutely. Does it hurt to set it anyway? Nope.
“But my application doesn’t have those settings!”Check out Default Folder X which, as the name implies, can set the default folder for just about any application (plus other things).
DropboxNo doubt you noticed that I suggested using Dropbox to save the files. That’s not just because they are available online or on any iOS device. Dropbox also keeps every revision for the past 30 days. That means that every time you hit “Save,” a separate version is saved on Dropbox.
Browsing Dropbox revisions isn’t as visually slick as using Versions on Lion. To view them, select the file in Finder, and then use the Dropbox icon on your Finder toolbar, or Control-click (right-click, or two-finger click) on the file and use the Dropbox contextual menu.
That will launch the Dropbox website and show you a listing of all the versions, and give you a chance to download them (some file formats can even be previewed online). While Dropbox only saves 30 days’ worth of revisions, Dropbox Pro users also have the option to add the Pack-Rat feature which will keep revisions indefinitely.
With every save, you are creating an off-site backup of your latest work, so even if you only use one computer, Dropbox is the place to save your most important and most often changed files.
“But what if I forget to press save? My app doesn’t have any sort of auto-save functionality!”Don’t fret if your app doesn’t have auto-save; you can add it to any application very simply by using Keyboard Maestro. It’s as simple as creating a macro which says “If I am using {insert application name here}, and there is a ‘Save’ button, press it every X seconds or minutes.” I’ve created just such a rule for Microsoft Word here:
This rule will only run when Microsoft Word is active and there is a menu option for “Save” (which will be disabled if you don’t have any files open). If it does find the Save menu item, it will select it. (You could also tell it to press “⌘ + S” but I prefer selecting menu items to keyboard shortcuts.)
With this rule you never have to worry about spending an hour on a Word document only to lose it all when the app crashed and you realized that you had forgotten to save it. If the file isn’t saved when the Keyboard Maestro macro runs, it will prompt you to name the file.
(There are other applications like Keyboard Maestro which support the same kind of features, but Keyboard Maestro is the one that I know and use. If you would recommend others, let us know in the comments.)
Versions is great, but there’s no need to wait for your app to support itVersions is a great addition to OS X, and I love not having to remember to save, but only a handful of applications support it at the present time. If you want to (or are required to) use another application, take a few minutes to check out your auto-save options. There are few things more frustrating than losing unsaved work, but the good news is that there are fewer and fewer reasons for that to ever happen.
Emulate Lion’s Versions in Microsoft Word originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Sun, 25 Sep 2011 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Related Posts:Mac 101: Additional tips for OS X Lion’s Mission Control
TUAW’s Dave Caolo did an in-depth look at OS X Lion’s new window/application manager, Mission Control, the day of OS X Lion’s launch. If you’re completely confused about Mission Control’s features, Dave’s post is a good place to get a baseline of knowledge on this new feature. In this post, I’ll be covering two additional features of Mission Control that will help alleviate some of the confusion associated with it, especially if you’re used to the way Spaces worked in earlier versions of Mac OS X.
Tip 1: Assigning applications to a specific DesktopMac OS X Snow Leopard had a preference pane in System Preferences that allowed you to assign applications to a particular Space. Unfortunately, Mission Control’s preference pane in OS X Lion has no such feature, which has led to a lot of confusion amongst users who were comfortable with Snow Leopard’s method of assigning apps to Spaces.
It turns out this feature hasn’t vanished altogether in OS X Lion, but it has been moved to a somewhat less “discoverable” location. It’s also less configurable than the preference pane setup Spaces had in Snow Leopard, but that may actually be of benefit to novice users.
First, use Mission Control to navigate to the Desktop you want your application to be assigned to. Once there, right click the Dock icon for the application you want to assign — if the application isn’t one you normally keep in the Dock, you’ll need to launch the app first. After right clicking the app’s icon, you’ll see a contextual menu pop up. On this menu, under Options, you’ll see a submenu called “Assign To” with three different options: All Desktops, This Desktop, or None.
“All Desktops” is just that; the app will follow you around no matter which Desktop you’re using. “This Desktop” will “pin” the app and its windows to your current Desktop, both now and for all future launches of the application. You can still move windows between Desktops manually if you desire, but by default they’ll open in the assigned Desktop. The third option, “None,” is the default; applications aren’t assigned to any particular Desktop, will simply launch in whichever one you’re currently using, and will stay there when you navigate to a different Desktop.
Assigning applications to a particular Desktop can help a lot in keeping things organized. I’ll offer my own setup as an example:
- Desktop 1: Safari, Echofon, Mail, iChat — My main Desktop gets all my communication tools assigned together.
- Desktop 2: Aperture, Photoshop — All my photo editing apps in one spot.
- Desktop 3: Pages, Keynote, Numbers — I have this desktop set aside for “Productivity” apps.
- Desktop 4: iMovie, Handbrake — This Desktop is devoted to video editing/transcoding apps.
- All Desktops: Finder — Obviously I don’t want to move to a different Desktop every time I need to dive into the file system.
This may not be true for all users migrating from Snow Leopard, but my Spaces preferences from Snow Leopard carried over to Lion, so I didn’t have to re-assign any applications after upgrading.
Tip 2: Assign a different wallpaper to each DesktopA feature I always wanted to see in Snow Leopard’s Spaces was the ability to assign different background pictures to each Space in order to make them visually distinctive. Without that, it was sometimes difficult to tell which Space I was in. This feature has found its way into OS X Lion, and it’s quite simple to set up, especially if you already know how to change your desktop background (easy to find in System Preferences under “Desktop & Screen Saver”).
To simplify things, first assign System Preferences to “All Desktops” using the tip above — this will save you some headaches if you’re changing multiple Desktop backgrounds at once. Then, navigate to the Desktop whose background you want to change. Once there, change the background in System Preferences. Simple. Using different backgrounds for each of your Desktops will make navigating between them in Mission Control much easier — especially since Apple hasn’t yet implemented any way to rename Desktops.
Hopefully these two tips will help you get more out of Mission Control than you would otherwise. The feature is above all meant to help you organize things and make them easier to navigate, but it does take some tweaking to get Mission Control to realize its full potential.
Mac 101: Additional tips for OS X Lion’s Mission Control originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Fri, 12 Aug 2011 21:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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How to refresh OS X Lion’s Launchpad contents
The young guys over at HaiTeq have been running into issues with Launchpad updating after installing software that wasn’t bought on the Mac App Store. Because of this, they’ve figured out a workaround to force Launchpad to refresh its data base.
Removing the database files from the user’s Dock application support folder and restarting the Dock allows Mission Control and the Launchpad to re-build the database from scratch, updating the presentation with all the new applications.
Here are HaiTeq’s steps, with a few modifications on my part for safety. Admittedly, if you are not comfortable at the command line, this is not the hack for you.
- Launch Terminal (from /Applications/Utilities/Terminal).
- Navigate to the Application Support folder in question (cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/Dock)
- Open the folder (open .) and drag all the .db files to the trash.
- Restart Dock (sudo killall Dock, followed by authentication)
I am not a Launchpad/Mission Control user and cannot verify these steps will reflect newly installed software. However, I did test them out for safety, and my Lion install is still working; my db file was instantly re-generated, and I did not find any harmful side-effects.
Please share your experiences in the comments.
How to refresh OS X Lion’s Launchpad contents originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Thu, 21 Jul 2011 03:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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