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honestly though it's a csv file... think it's time for numbers to support it and do what the user expects.
by sigmonsays 4y ago
honestly though it's a csv file... think it's time for numbers to support it and do what the user expects.
- danielvaughn 4y agoYeah this was the point I was trying to make. Obviously I didn't pay attention, but like...if I open a CSV file, my intuition tells me that if I click "save", it will save to the original CSV file. That's how most other programs work. Just because Excel also does it, doesn't make it a good idea. It's a bad idea and it's a hallmark of legacy software.
- ezfe 4y agoNumbers opens the CSV file, gives the user a screen to control import settings, and supports exporting as a CSV with custom delimeters. Excel does save back to CSV. It discards half your changes because they can't be saved in a CSV, modifies anything that could possibly be a date, and rounds random numbers, THEN it saves it as a CSV. Numbers makes this an explicit "Export" option because silently saving these types of changes is super dangerous.