We almost titled this, "The post you never saw (because the dog editor ate it)." That’s because we tried out a new editor plugin for Wordpress here in the CrabApple Forest, and discovered (too late to do us any good) that it doesn’t autosave our partially written articles, the way the native Wordpress editor does. So if you make a dumb mistake and leave the editing page, as we did, there’s no draft copy to fall back on. Although we are not motivated to rewrite the entire article, we will refer you to some pages that we had referenced in that article, that we had intended to share with you.
photo credit: emsefThe first page describes how you can create Automator actions that will show or hide "hidden" files on the Mac, including the infamous .DS_Store files. This same tip could be used to provide easy access to just about ANY shell script that doesn’t require user input:
Quick Tip: Show/Hide Hidden Files
If you prefer to do this the old, manual way from the terminal, that’s explained here. The second thing we intended to explain was this:
How to prevent .DS_Store file creation over network connections
That article, from Apple’s support site, shows how to keep your computer from leaving "Mac droppings" (those infamous .DS_Store files) on other computers on networks you may be connected to. Normally you don’t even see those files unless you instruct Finder to let you see them, and that was the point of the first tip above.
So if you follow the advice in the second tip, your Windows and Linux using friends will have one less thing to crab about when you connect your Mac to their local network, either physically or over certain types of remote connections. We are sorry that you missed the witty prose and sparkling commentary of the original article, but we have learned that autosave is an invaluable feature in a blog editor and although the built-in Wordpress editor may not be as flashy as the one provided by the plugin, at least it works and doesn’t let our text fall into the great bit-bucket in the sky.
Now please pardon us while we go off and have a crabfest about how well things are (not) working in Wordpress lately…
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