Previous solutions for disabling autosave for preview no longer seem to work for Monterey. I'm sure I'm not the only one with this problem, but I can't find a fix. Can anyone help please?
(In case anyone needs an explanation--I open a pdf and rotate it for viewing, but even if I undo the rotate it still preserves a modified time/date stamp--which subsequently screws up sorting the files in a directory.)
MacBook Air 13″, macOS 12.4
With macOS 12.4, there is no prevention for Preview performing an autosave on the local drive, whether the System Preferences > General > ☐ Ask to keep changes when closing documents is selected or not.
However, the current (2022.001.20142) version of Adobe Acrobat Reader DC does not autosave changes to the PDF. That might be the tool to use.
I do use Adobe, but when I have 1000 images in a folder and want to scroll through them all Adobe does not work well (it opens each image in a separate tab and can't easily navigate between them). Maybe there are other 3rd party image viewers that would work better for my purposes than preview?
I don't know if it will be any better but you could try XnView MP. One good thing is, it's free.
Many thanks--I'll give it a try.
You're welcome.
Disable autosave in preview for Monterey
