Preserve documents according to how much time or money would be needed to replace them. For work in progress, macOS versioning can be a great help.
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It can take many hours for files to be downloaded from iCloud. Apps must be able to cope with that, but how well does macOS?
Its documentation consists almost entirely of how-to recipes. Is there nothing more conceptual so we can understand its apparently random behaviour?
Using local Time Machine backup, iCloud Recovery, and saved versions to recover previous and current versions of files in iCloud Drive, and their limitations.
Two RSRs in two days! What went wrong with the first on 10 July, and why it would have been anticipated, and was entirely preventable.
Now supported by many apps, document versions are a free and valuable feature in macOS. Here’s a summary of its features and how to get most from it.
We should have expected Apple to remain silent about what the RSR does. But ruining its own clean and logical version numbering system was unexpected.
They now get signed, an Info.plist is embedded, they’re notarized by Apple, use the hardened runtime, maybe the App Sandbox, and request entitlements. So how do you check their version?
It’s all too easy to lose all previous versions of a document: one false move to another volume, to iCloud, or shared over a network and they’ve gone. How can you preserve them?
Document versions, accessed through Revert To…, are a major part of the protection macOS provides for dealing with errors. How to get the most from them.
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