How to switch Auto Save off ?

11 years ago • updated by 11 years ago • 3

I use your editor for developing Corona SDK games and noticed it auto saves frequently.

How do I switch that off ?

Trouble is the Corona simulator detects the file is changed and refreshes and sometimes I don't want it to, as I could be half way through something and then it starts complaining about errors.

I moved from Text Wrangler to your editor and that never auto saved.

Thanks,

Dave

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11 years ago

Currently, you can't. I'll consider adding a switch to disable AutoSave. Since Versions and iCloud depend on AutoSave, these features will also be disabled if you disable AutoSave.

11 years ago

I'd also like to see this feature. I have my FTP client set to auto upload files to my server when saved locally, so the auto-save generates tons of unneeded, and sometimes unwanted, uploads. I really like the app other than this functionality, but until that feature gets added I'll have to go back to another editor for web development work.

11 years ago

Another user posted a workaround here: http://feedback.textasticapp.com/topic/165187-editing-a-file-and-going-to-another-app-saves-the-file/

I still hope you make this an option :-)
For those of you that don't like the autosave option, you could turn this off just for Textastic with this command in the terminal;
defaults write com.textasticapp.textastic-mac ApplePersistence -bool no
To turn in back on use;
defaults write com.textasticapp.textastic-mac ApplePersistence -bool yes
I've testet this on DP3 of Mavericks, but it should work on Lion/ML. Found it on OSXDaily

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