Mac TextEditor Remembers All, Even If You Did Not Save
Most People will find it convenient and helpful that the mac text editor autosaves, I got worried. I know that autosaves are deleted when the user presses don’t save. But is it really deleted? I looked into it and what i found might scare some people who had there mac stolen or they sold / gave or lend there mac to someone. Below is a Instruments Capture of TextEdit Showing where the autosaves are stored
/Users/USERNAME/Library/Containers/com.apple.TextEdit/Data/Library/Saved Application State/ Is where autosaves are stored. This is not only in OSX Lion but also OSX Snow Leopard and possibly other versions of OSX.
So Basically
When You Open Text Edit and Type Stuff… Important, Private Stuff..
And You Did Not Save… To keep Snoops, Trolls and Trouble Makers From Accessing it
The Mac Text Editor Autosaves things typed in text edit… but deletes them when you press don’t save…
“If Its Deleted Than What I Typed Can’t Be Found Right????” hahaha… WRONG! Deleted Text Edit autosaves can be recovered with regular data recovery software
Which Could Come Back To Bite You
How Can This Be Fixed?
For Past Autosaves
Open Disk Utility > Macintosh HD >Erase > Erase Free Space > Pick Your Secure Erase Setting (More secure = slow erase) > Erase Free Space
For Future Autosaves
Open TextEdit > Preferences > Open and Save > Autosave modified documents > Click Never
