Felix Miata wrote:
On 2013-07-17 12:14 (GMT-0400) Paul B. Gallagher composed:
Felix Miata wrote:
If it was up to me, delete would always mean delete rather than hide,
regardless of context. Delete that increases disk consumption by
even one bit is not deletion, it's a lie. Compaction would never be a
separate menu item or process.
The point of doing it this way is to make undo possible. If all deletes
were permanent and irrevocable, the system would be very unforgiving and
not as user-friendly. I make enough mistakes that I prefer to spend a
couple of MB on my terabyte drive for CYA.
Delete means cancel, expunge or eradicate. It's been around a very very
long time. A hide operation that's reversible needs a different word
that does not connote increase available free space. Current delete
usage on a computer parallels misuse of megabyte/MB for 2^20 instead of
its original and still current meaning 10^6.
CYA is one of the things backups are for.
Do you make backups every 30 seconds? I don't, I run mine nightly. If I
make a mistake between 9 am and noon, I can only roll back to last
night's backup, not to where I was an hour ago.
I suggest you read up on what "delete" means in a computer context. It's
been like this for several decades. If your disk space is so tight that
you need to save a couple of megabytes this way, you need a bigger disk.
Otherwise, thank the developers and move on.
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War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left.
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Paul B. Gallagher
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