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Be aware of possible data loss with TextEdit's Save dialog
Authored by: johnrchang on Dec 15, '06 09:06:43PM

This is only an issue with TextEdit, not with all Cocoa applications. See line 1632 of TextEdit/Document.m.

Anyway, this is not as horrible as you describe. TextEdit very clearly warns that a folder could be replaced: "A file or folder with the same name already exists in Desktop. Replacing it will overwrite its current contents."

One could argue that Replace shouldn't be the default button, but I've never had trouble with it. Actually, I hate how Finder, iTunes, etc. makes you click on non-default buttons and there's no keyboard shortcut whatsoever. If they did provide a keyboard shortcut, Return is not much worse, since most people don't think twice at familiar dialog boxes anyway.



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Be aware of possible data loss with TextEdit's Save dialog
Authored by: Lou Kash on Dec 18, '06 09:25:04AM

command-R



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Be aware of possible data loss with TextEdit's Save dialog
Authored by: starwxrwx on Jan 10, '07 11:54:37PM

When the dialogue box comes up there are acutally two defaults - one for the enter key (blue) and one for the space key (blue glow).

If you TAB around you can change which button you press (possibly only from space bar), without needing to resort to the mouse.



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