hoakley August 17, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

Revisionist version 1.8 is now a Universal App

Revisionist version 1.8 is its first full release as a Universal App, superceding previous versions. It should run natively on both Intel and Apple Silicon Macs, on all versions of macOS from El Capitan to Big Sur beta 3.

It’s now available from here: revisionist18
from Downloads above, from its Product Page, and its auto-update mechanism.

If you’re running an Intel Mac and have any problems, please let me know. I’ll leave the Intel-only version 1.7 available on the Product Page in case you’d prefer to revert to that.

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luckman212 on February 24, 2021 at 3:03 pm

Hi Howard

Thank you for this wonderful utility. Seems like Apple should have built something like this into the OS… thankfully people like you have filled in some of these gaps. I guess with a paltry 3 trillion dollar capitalization, Apple just doesn’t have resources to spare to complete the feature set in their core OS /s.

Now then, I wanted to ask about an odd behavior I noticed yesterday:

When I open a file from iCloud Drive in Revisionist (1.8, macOS 11.2.1) initially it only shows 1 version (the current) as being available. However, simply opening that file in TextEdit and activating the “Browse All Versions” command somehow “unlocks” all the previous revisions, and quitting & re-opening Revisionist it now displays them.

I wanted to ask if you’d seen this or had any ideas on how to rattle that cage from within Revisionist without having to manually open it in TextEdit.

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  hoakley on February 24, 2021 at 11:15 pm
  
  Thank you.
  This is because iCloud hasn’t made those versions available to the local version management system. TextEdit fetches the original and its versions from iCloud, making them visible to the local versioning system. You can do this manually using Cirrus, or Bailiff, but for the moment I’m afraid that Revisionist can’t do that automatically yet.
  Howard.
  
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    luckman212 on February 25, 2021 at 4:05 am
    
    Makes sense (in a twisted sort of Apple way). Thanks for the insight. Your comment makes it sound as if there’s a sliver of hope that a future version of Revisionist might be able to trigger this fetch directly. That would be a very welcome addition!
    
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      hoakley on February 25, 2021 at 10:18 am
      
      Thank you.
      I’m not sure that’s such a good idea, as it could result in hefty downloads from iCloud, which may not only consume local storage, but also result in delays opening the versions. Even as an option I’m not convinced.
      Howard.
      
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