> The user just requested that the file be overwritten when they said "save". > Clearly the content of their "precious" file doesn't matter any more, its the > contents of the Geany buffer that the user wants to save that is important. > And as the wiki article says, failing to save does not alter the Geany > buffer, its still available to save somewhere else, whatever the reason the > save failed. Save to a usb stick, save to a different drive, just save that > precious buffer, and don't worry about the old file, they already said to > overwrite it.
Okay, but the user *does not know that the original file was destroyed*. There are cases where the file was only slightly modified (in my case I added only one line to the file), and one says: okay, there was a problem when saving, but at least my original file is safe, let's quit Geany and see what happened. An what happened is that the original file is now empty. But I don't even understand why I have to argue here. That's simple: data loss in a software *must be avoided*, period (excepted in case of hardware problems, of course). -- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/2494#issuecomment-625331933
