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The way I usually mess with things in OS X, it was :rolleyes:

Same here, although I don't tweak my mac as much as I did at first. I like to personalize my visual. But with updates so often I've found it's not exactly worth the hassle anymore. Once, I restarted computer when it was acting weird, before fixing the parameters, and it wouldn't restart. I had the fix the paremeters from the recovery drive. Since then I've always fixed the parameters before I updated the system or if system starts to act odd. Also if I've made a lot of changes to programs I've done it too. Always seems to help.

I hope it works properly in the background now.
 
I love AutoSave simply because I can get an older version of my document without worrying if I should or not delete something (like a block of text). Besides, you can still manually save with AutoSave on.

Accept when you collaborate with other people via email exchanges or, heaven forbid, a file server. Autosave is tied to the local machine and does not work when the file resides on a network drive. This makes it a crazy experience, because you'd have to change your work flow depending on where your file is saved. It made OS X 10.7 completely unusable initially for us. (Until you could disable it)
I haven't tried it in a while because it was so dangerous, but it used to be that on a network drive it would just save your changes without notice, but with no versions available there would be no way to revert to an earlier version other than restoring a backup. Crazy silly.
 
Accept when you collaborate with other people via email exchanges or, heaven forbid, a file server. Autosave is tied to the local machine and does not work when the file resides on a network drive. This makes it a crazy experience, because you'd have to change your work flow depending on where your file is saved. It made OS X 10.7 completely unusable initially for us. (Until you could disable it)
I haven't tried it in a while because it was so dangerous, but it used to be that on a network drive it would just save your changes without notice, but with no versions available there would be no way to revert to an earlier version other than restoring a backup. Crazy silly.

I don't really understand why Apple doesn't give the choice to share the versions of the document, I think it would solve your problem (and make the feature more valuable).
 
Accept when you collaborate with other people via email exchanges or, heaven forbid, a file server. Autosave is tied to the local machine and does not work when the file resides on a network drive. This makes it a crazy experience, because you'd have to change your work flow depending on where your file is saved. It made OS X 10.7 completely unusable initially for us. (Until you could disable it)
I haven't tried it in a while because it was so dangerous, but it used to be that on a network drive it would just save your changes without notice, but with no versions available there would be no way to revert to an earlier version other than restoring a backup. Crazy silly.
I think I got burned a few times by this during the short time I used 10.7, which is why I've tried to steer clear of autosave ever since. I find it far too confusing and unpredictable.
 
There is a new Wireless Diagnostics window in El Capitan. When you option click on WiFi, there's a menu item called "Open Wireless Diagnostics…". After clicking there, open the Window menu and click on Monitor (or hit cmd-7). This window summarises all wifi information in a clean and flat style. I don't understand what is the purpose of the bottom part of the window, though. I've found some info about AWDL (Apple Wireless Direct Link) in this post.

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PS: Is it possible to blur text in Preview?
 
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Hey everyone,
I rolled back from Beta 4 to Beta 2 because After Effects CC 2015 was panicking on launch. Any news on whether the latest Build (is it currently Beta 6? Maybe 7 today? :) ) is working with AE?
TIA
 
You can now open a new (free floating) Finder window on top of a fullscreen Finder Window.
Previously it would open the new Finder window in a separate space.

How did you do that? Everytime I try to do that, a new Finder widow is opened fullscreen in a seperate space.
 
Hey, TextEdit is full-screenable now. I'm not sure when that was added but I know it's not on Yosemite.
 
How did you do that? Everytime I try to do that, a new Finder widow is opened fullscreen in a seperate space.

To open a free-floating finder window on top of a fullscreen finder window:

Open a Finder window and make it fullscreen. Then press Command + N to open a new finder window or alternatively right click the finder icon on the dock and open new finder window. Let me know how it goes for you.
 
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