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July 25, 2011, 4:20pm
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(That said, for the long term, I would continue to watch what Apple itself does with its more complicated file formats. I know that in Keynote you conceptually have a single file where as in Scrivener you conceptually have a collection of files, but both are essentially databases of collections of files.)
That “conceptually” is the key point though:
We’ve been asked by several users whether Scrivener will be supporting Versions any time soon. The short answer is “no” - the only way Scrivener could support versions is by dropping some of its core features. For those interested, though, the full explanation follows.
There are two types of window-based programs on OS X, essentially:
Document-based programs. These are programs in which you work on different documents in different windows, such as TextEdit, Pages, Word and so on.
Shoebox …
Also, imagine what would happen to your hard drive if a file that could be a gigabyte in size were saved as an extra version every single time you made a change…