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Even worse, Mac apps are trending towars the "save as you go" model of Google Docs, which has the one advantage of you don't lose your work if an app crashes but if you started editing the wrong document, or make some changes and then change your mind and want to revert back to the last saved version you are tearing your hair out. The latter happens to me much more often.

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Assuming the app has implemented the new saving model correctly, it will also keep a history of every version:

File > Revert To > Browse all versions

Indeed - the OS X model fixes (to some extent) the problem in question, not exacerbates it.

As evident from the comments above, one of OS X's biggest weak points is feature discoverability.

I love how OS X stays out of your way, but most regular users never get to take advantage of greater complexity. You have to be in the mindset of one of 'us' (reading every update to Apple's PR) to get a handle on everything OS X can do.

Hardly, it was well advertised when Lion came out.

Exactly. If you got your first Mac post 10.7 (and you're the average user) you've got no idea you have such a feature.

Maybe you find it one day trolling through the menubar. Maybe you don't.

My 6-year old version of Word 2008 has an option to always make a backup of the previous version when saving, which (unfortunately in this case) is off by default.

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