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From: Phil Taylor on 28 Mar 2010 15:33
In article <timstreater-5CA0B1.18112528032010(a)news.individual.net>, Tim
Streater <timstreater(a)waitrose.com> wrote:

> In article <9VlTxZtLv4rLFAZx(a)trevorwright.demon.co.uk>,
> Trevor Wright <newstrap(a)thewrights.uk.com> wrote:
>
> > In message
> > <1jg2oul.lnf9yy1g9h46oN%real-not-anti-spam-address(a)apple-juice.co.uk>,
> > D.M. Procida <real-not-anti-spam-address(a)apple-juice.co.uk> writes
> > >Why Save as..., rather than Save?
> >
> > It's the first time I've saved the file. I want to choose a name and
> > folder for it. ..
>
> The first time you save a file, Save will work just like Save As...

AFAICR, the earliest Mac apps (MacWrite, MacPaint etc.) didn't do that
- the Save command was kept dimmed for new documents, and you had to
use Save As... the first time. I think that it was Microsoft who first
introduced the idea of allowing Save to act as Save As... if the
document had not yet been saved (at least MS Word was the first program
I saw which did that). Later on it became standard.

Phil Taylor
From: Trevor Wright on 28 Mar 2010 15:48
In message <hooaet$m18$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Gavin
>
>Your saving to an system folder or similar, thats the only reason I can
>think of that would give you the error you describe.

No. I was saving to a folder I'd created myself within the Documents
folder. Somehow the permissions had become changed.

--
Trevor Wright
From: Gwynne Harper on 28 Mar 2010 16:41
Trevor Wright <newstrap(a)thewrights.uk.com> wrote:

> No. I was saving to a folder I'd created myself within the Documents
> folder. Somehow the permissions had become changed.

1. Use Apple's Disk Utility (in Applications/Utilities) to check &
repair permissions across the rest of your system.

2. Download the freeware app Onyx:

<http://www.titanium.free.fr/pgs/english/apps.html>

It's no better than DU in repairing permissions, but it can do some of
the other routine Unix Voodoo.

On the bright side, I've never had any difficult with Word file formats
'twixt Mac and PC.


Gwynne
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