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.
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At the top level of every volume use for normal file storage is a hidden folder containing its version database. Here are details of how it works, and how to solve its problems and get the best from it. Even if you don’t want to use versions.
Without you saving any changes made to a document, Preview saves versions in the macOS versioning system that could prove a great help. Here’s how to use it.
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.
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.
Using local Time Machine backup, iCloud Recovery, and saved versions to recover previous and current versions of files in iCloud Drive, and their limitations.
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.
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