Saving, autosave and recovery
Saving
Section titled “Saving”A presentation is saved as a single .guidepost file. Its name in Guidepost is always its file name.
- File › Save (⌘S) saves your changes. The first time, it asks for a name and location.
- File › Save As… (⌥⇧⌘S) saves a copy under a new name.
- File › Rename…, or clicking the name in the title bar, renames the presentation, and its file too once it’s saved.
A dot beside the name in the title bar means there are unsaved changes.
Autosave
Section titled “Autosave”While you work, Guidepost keeps a working copy of your changes a few seconds after each edit, and whenever you switch workspace, go live, or switch to another app.
Autosave never changes your file. Only Save does. Guidepost stores the working copy separately from your saved presentation. If autosave stops working, Guidepost tells you, so you can save with ⌘S.
Unsaved changes
Section titled “Unsaved changes”When you create, open or close a presentation, or quit Guidepost, with unsaved changes, Guidepost asks Save changes to “Sunday”?:
- Save saves them first.
- Don’t Save discards them.
- Cancel goes back.
While a service is live, these actions first ask whether to end live, for example End live to open “Christmas Eve”?. Choose End Live and continue or Cancel.
Recovering after a crash
Section titled “Recovering after a crash”If Guidepost or your Mac quits unexpectedly, the next time you open Guidepost, or open the affected presentation, it asks Recover unsaved work? It shows when the problem happened and how much unsaved work the recovered copy contains.
- Recover opens the recovered work, marked as unsaved. Save it to keep it.
- Discard throws the recovered copy away.
- Decide later keeps the recovered copy and asks again next time.
When saving fails
Section titled “When saving fails”If a presentation can’t be saved, for example because the disk is full or a USB drive was unplugged, Guidepost says why and when it was last saved successfully. The presentation stays open with your unsaved changes. Choose Save elsewhere… to save it to another location, or Try again.
When a presentation can’t be opened
Section titled “When a presentation can’t be opened”If a file can’t be opened, Guidepost explains why and what to do. For example:
- Saved with a newer version of Guidepost: update Guidepost on this Mac, then open it again. The file isn’t changed.
- The disk it’s on is no longer connected: reconnect the drive.
Recent presentations on a drive that isn’t connected appear in File › Open Recent and on the Start screen marked as not connected.
You can undo changes to the presentation, including deleting slides and groups and making edits while live. Edit › Undo names the change it will undo, such as “Undo Move Layer”. View changes, such as zoom and panel sizes, aren’t part of undo. Undo history starts fresh when you open a presentation.