kpemberton

Thank you moshu, I am looking into it.

WordPress uses the webserver program. MAC has apache already installed, along with the MySQL dbase and PHP.
Just call WordPress platform independent, there should be no difference between windows MAC or Linux based OS as far as how WordPress displays, other than the browser, just because there are no direct system calls from within WordPress.

You got it! if they don’t take much space I won’t worry.
Thanks for the information, I will let you worry about the details as long as they won’t affect me.

Kevin

OK, wrong terms. When I start my phpmyadmin and look at what I thought were files and browsed the wp-posts, ID 204 through 215 are all for the same post. This is typical, but not as pronounced for my other posts.
When using a word processor, saving my work appends or replaces my work. The down side of this is it is much harder to roll back to past work, for this I love wordpress. If a pop up appeared when I hit the publish button for the first time asked if I wanted to dump all ( I call them fragments of the post) leaving only the completed work, I would find this very convenient. For transparency I want to keep revisions to completed posts, but have no reason to keep fragments of my work before I publish, this only takes up space on the servers file system.( the abuse)

I want to save revisions, just not the ones saved while completing my work.

I would like to have the terminology used in this community committed to memory, but my memory has failed me. Forgive my lack of communicating skills. I hope this comment clears up what I am trying to say, if not please keep up the dialog.

Kevin

Not exactly. The post was only published twice, once to attract attention of my editor, the next when my editor corrected anything I typed or spelled wrong. This process left over 10 files on my MySQL data base.

Thank you for directing me to the disable revisions link. I like the idea of rolling back if I really screw up, but the extra work of dumping extra files when I am satisfied, should be corrected by an option on the control panel. And no, I don’t know anything about programing, only what is not working as I would expect. Not really a complaint either, only a suggestion to be looked at. One more question though, are all the files I found reliant upon the previous file or can I just dump files as if they are duplicate files in the db?

Thanks again
Kevin