What is revisiond on Mac?
By Junaid, maker of Taskglass · Last reviewed
Stores earlier versions of your documents for 'Revert To' and 'Browse All Versions'.
revisiond manages document revisions: the saved versions that let you go back in apps like Pages, TextEdit and Preview using File > Revert To. It runs on demand and is normally quiet.
- Category
- macOS system
- Made by
- Apple
- Safe to quit:
- With care
Shown in Activity Monitor as revisiond
Why is revisiond using so much CPU or memory?
- Saving large documents often
- Connecting a drive with lots of document history
What to do
- 1Wait for saves to finish
- 2Restart your Mac if it stays busy
Safe to quit? With care.
It relaunches; version history could be affected if interrupted while saving.
Related processes
Part of the Taskglass Process Library