How to create a new file with a creation date 4 months ago and versions dating back to 3 months before that Mac even existed. All without changing any clocks.
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How you can easily move saved versions with a file wherever you want, so preserving those versions, and how faithfully versions are created. Demonstrated with a file of 230 versions.
Annotations are complicated. If you’re not careful, hidden annotations can be left in documents and cause embarrassment. And how to recover a PDF that Preview has mutilated.
Wrangle Unicode normalisation, discover all the app extensions in your Mac, browse the log with nanosecond times, and preserve documents versions when moving them.
Although introduced in the same year, versioning and iCloud Drive aren’t integrated. This explains how they work, and how you can transfer versions through iCloud Drive.
The rules for preserving document versions are based on their being associated with the document’s inode number, and on the same volume. Here are the details and a way to preserve them whatever.
It has been built into macOS and many apps over the last 14 years, but must be one of its least used features. How versions can empower your editing of documents.
Convert a document into a folder containing all its saved versions, and unarchive that folder back into a document with all those saved versions. All using drag-and-drop.
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