#VERSION HISTORY PREVIEW MAC OS MAC#

#VERSION HISTORY PREVIEW MAC OS MAC#

Give this a few minutes to synchronise with another Mac which is connected to the same iCloud Drive, then open that document in iCloud Drive from that other system. When you use the Browse All Versions… command in the File menu, you should then see all those versions which you have saved along the way, and they should be listed in Revisionist too. Edit the document some more and save, again and again to build a respectable number of versions. To test it out, open Pages 7.2, create a new document, add some content, and save it to iCloud Drive, preferably in the Pages folder there. If you’re using it from Pages, Numbers or Keynote, you will need to use the current release, in Pages’ case version 7.2, which requires High Sierra or later. This requires iCloud Drive, and generally works most reliably with Mojave. For this to work, the app creating the versions needs to have been built with the macOS 10.14 SDK (in Xcode 10), although it can actually be running on macOS 10.12. As Apple’s developer documentation puts it (still): “For files in the cloud, there is usually only one version of the file at any given time.”Īt some stage in the last few weeks, Apple has changed this, and versions of documents in iCloud can now be preserved and accessed by other Macs and iOS devices. Any other Mac (or iOS device) which connects to that iCloud Drive cannot see those versions, so they are effectively lost. The end result is that versions are preserved only for the Mac which saves that document to iCloud. DocumentRevisions-V100 folder, but documents stored in them can retain old versions in that folder on their startup volume. Any apps on that volume that want to store previous versions do so in the database and folders within that. DocumentRevisions-V100 at the root of each volume. The macOS version management system centres on a hidden and locked-away folder named. When he browsed all versions in the current version (7.2) of Pages, he could see many versions of his documents that didn’t appear in Revisionist’s listing of those available. This all came to light because a regular reader and user of my app Revisionist noticed that it and Pages told very different stories about documents which he had saved to iCloud Drive. At least, they weren’t until recently, and although this does work now, it seems riddled with bugs that will confuse you. I’ve long been a fan of the built-in document version management in macOS, but frustrated at how versions weren’t preserved when sharing files in iCloud.

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