In Textedit, is there a way to save all open files at once?
As of now, I have to save them one-by-one. I wish there's a Save All option, or is there some hack-ish Way through the command line or something where I can do this?
In Textedit, is there a way to save all open files at once
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TextEdit → Preferences → Open and Save
Set “Plain Text File Encoding” to “Unicode (UTF-8)” for both opening and saving files.
If that doesn’t fix it already, open Terminal.app and enter the following:
echo "0x08000100:0" > ~/.CFUserTextEncoding
Then logout and login again.
This fixes the ancient UTF-8 bug in OS X that also manifest in QuickLook.
To fix it for just a single file rather than for all files (I don’t see why you would, though), just write the extended attribute that TextEdit uses:
xattr -w com.apple.TextEncoding 'UTF-8;134217984' filename.txt
Hope this helps!
I ended up replacing TextEdit's code signature with an ad-hoc signature:
sudo codesign -f -s - /Applications/TextEdit.app/
It disables sandboxing, so for example the preference files are in ~/Library/Preferences/ instead of the sandbox container.
Edit: The dialogs returned after I reinstalled OS X, and now I'm getting errors like this for codesign -f -s -:
$ sudo codesign -f -s - /Applications/TextEdit.app/
/Applications/TextEdit.app/: replacing existing signature
/Applications/TextEdit.app/: object file format unrecognized, invalid, or unsuitable
I'm using https://github.com/jjgod/TextEditPlus for now. It's based on a version of TextEdit that came with 10.7, but it works with 10.8.2.
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Best Answer
Apple offers various ways to control documents in apps in System Preferences > General.
Ask to keep changes when closing documents
If you turn this off, then MacOS will automatically save documents when their windows are closed.
With this setting off, you only need to save when you create the document. After that, changes will be automatically saved as you make them, with versions showing each change. You can Close All (Option Command W), or just Quit the app at any time, and all files will be automatically saved with the latest version.
Close windows when quitting an app
If you turn this off, then Untitled documents that are open will be secretly saved (in the bowels of the user Library) and will open again when the app is relaunched.
If you turn this on, then you should be prompted to save each Untitled window in turn before Quit.