Comment on I don't believe Auto Save feature in any software

CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’d be great if there were side kind of feedback, like the cursor quickly flashing a “C” or something… anything to let you know the operation occurred; better yet, was successful.

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  • kbotc@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I actually disagree from a systems engineer perspective: The program doesn’t actually know shit if those bits hit any permanent medium, just that the OS told them “I’ll take care of it” it could be sitting in a write back cache when you save, see the “write complete” and rip the power and that’s all gone now. Basically, I don’t like promising durability when it’s not really there.

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  • DrDeadCrash@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Check for an asterisk after the file name (in the tab/title bar), it means “unsaved changes”.

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