Good human interface design should bring fun where it’s appropriate, but fun is only justifiable when it’s completed to be functional.
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Introduced in OS X 10.7 Lion in 2011, this feature has undergone considerable change. Although it stored versions in iCloud Drive at one time, it doesn’t now.
We’re almost unaware of clone files, and how they’ve changed macOS. But look at most documents that have been saved more than once, and you’ll see they’ve now be cloned.
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.
How to reproduce this serious bug in Sonoma 14.4, and how to archive all the versions of a file or document so they can’t get destroyed.
Do you use saved versions in documents? If a file is evicted by you or macOS, then all saved versions will now be removed, and lost forever. How to work around this serious bug.
Step by step through moving to iCloud Drive, eviction to a dataless file, materialisation of local data, editing and syncing with iCloud Drive.
How local files retain their extended attributes and versions when moved to iCloud Drive, but they’re not available to other Macs. Sparse files and storage economy as well.
If you want to work on the same document across different Apple platforms, then the option providing most restrictive access to saved versions is iCloud Drive.
If you use apps like Pages and Numbers, and others using macOS versions, those versions can’t be shared across iCloud. Over 13 years, Apple still hasn’t got that working as you’d expect.
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