Every time I save a TextEdit file 'SAVE' always goes to iCloud, even though I have been saving to another folder. Can I stop 'SAVE' from doing this?
I run OS X 10.9.4
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Sign up to join this communityYou can run the following Terminal command, which will revert the new behaviour of saving new files to iCloud:
defaults write com.apple.TextEdit NSDocumentSaveNewDocumentsToCloud -bool false
To set this for all apps, run…
defaults write -g NSDocumentSaveNewDocumentsToCloud -bool false
To revert, replace false
with true
.
Saving to cloud is easy to disable in system preferences:
This was tested on Yosemite and a Macbook Pro 2015
~/Library/Containers/com.apple.TextEdit/Data/Library/Autosave Information/
as Unsaved TextEdit Document.txt
, Unsaved TextEdit Document 2.txt
, etc, though the name in the window titles are "Untitled", "Untitled 2", etc (not congruent with filename). When you quit TextEdit and then restart, docs are reopened too.