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- verb to
save again.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Would be insanely useful if you had a 'resave' option as well.
doggdot.us 2009
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Thank God for the power of restore software ... now I just have to wait another 15-20 minutes to resave everything!
Oh... I Hate That Feeling... Sarah 2009
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Thank God for the power of restore software ... now I just have to wait another 15-20 minutes to resave everything!
Archive 2009-03-01 Sarah 2009
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We do not attempt to round trip unsupported elements and attributes, they will be removed from the ODF file if you resave it using Office 2007 SP2.
Review: Free OpenOffice.org Writer surpasses Microsoft Word under the hood 2009
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So I opened the file on various other machines and indeed, did have to resave some of the links as relative instead of absolute.
Archive 2008-02-01 StyleyGeek 2008
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So I opened the file on various other machines and indeed, did have to resave some of the links as relative instead of absolute.
I'm so competent, I amaze myself. StyleyGeek 2008
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They then resave it blank so they can use it over and over again.
It's funny cos it's true Jonathan 2006
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They then resave it blank so they can use it over and over again.
Archive 2006-08-01 Jonathan 2006
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I copied all my undergrad floppy disks onto my harddrive long ago....in the next few years, I will find all my very old Word files from there and resave them into a more modern version of Word, or perhaps save as PDF, as I am relatively confident that *some* program will always be able to handle basic PDFs.
Luddite Bardiac 2008
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When you use it to back up, you only need to resave the changes rather than all the files, Enderle says.
A Backup Plan 2007
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