autnagrag wrote:
I have well-established habits of saving.
Autosave is causing me to lose work by interrupting me and telling me it is unable to autosave, and offering me the chance to "revert."
This causes me lose work each time, and it is happening more often. In earlier versions of macOS there were ways to do this. After reading these threads for a while, I now wonder:
In Sequoia, is the command line the only way to turn off autosave in TextEdit.
The issue seems to be arise whenever the TextEdit file is not located in iCloud Drive.
I have never encountered this error in TextEdit.app in any of the macOS going way back.
I use TextEdit quite extensively everyday
Also I do not see TextEdit as an option to save to iCloud...(?) I can not speak to "iCloud Drive."
To trouble shoot further you can:
—A SafeBoot Start up your Mac in safe mode - Apple Support will sort many anomalies
Does a quick disk repair before it fully boots up, and certain system caches get cleared and rebuilt, third party system modifications and system accelerations are disabled temporarily.
Login and test. Reboot as normal and test. Caches get rebuilt automatically.
This test will tell you if third party interference; most extensions etc are not loaded in safe boot mode.
—Test issue in another user (or guest user) account Change Users & Groups settings on Mac - Apple Support
This will tell you if it a universal issue or isolated to your user/admin account.
***wireless keyboard with rechargeable batteries— connect the charging cable, this will make the wired keyboard successful Safe Boot your Mac.
unplug all non-essential peripherals when testing
Uninstall all third party apps that are Cleaners/Optimizers/VPN/Anti-Virus
all known to cause issues on the macOS
Verify your software is up to date…
The current stable release of Sequoia including bug fixes, security updates is macOS 15.6.1
Keep your Mac up to date - Apple Support
Keep your Mac up to date - Apple Support
