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From: kent@circus.camex.com (Kent Borg)
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Subject: Re: Save/Discard/Cancel
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Date: 4 Dec 90 03:02:30 GMT
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In article <1990Nov30.041941.24294@csn.org> wilde@tigger.Colorado.EDU (Nick Wilde) writes:

[Conversation on "Are you sure you don't not want to save?" dialogs.]

>Perhaps the only thing that would work is a universal "undo" command -
>Wouldn't that be neat ? I folder right next to the trash on your hard 
>disk labelled "Waste paper" or something like that, where the last
>document you changed and didn't save gets put by the application in
>case you decide you really do want it. Like when I go diggin through
>my own waste paper basket to find that note I threw away. (Only this
>one wouldn't have a banana peel on top of it:))

That's it!!!  When an application wants to save something valuable and
the user thinks (foolishly) that it can be safely trashed, the
application should dump a copy in the Trash!  (Under 7.0 the Trash
doesn't empty until the user requests it.)

I know that on booting 7.0b1 sometimes I see in the Trash a fleeting
"Items Rescued from MyHardDisk"-folder.  (It seems to vanish after
Finder settles down.)  Maybe applications should put potentially
useful things there?

Question: What happens if an application calls FSDelete under 7.0?
Really erases the file, huh?  Maybe we need an FSSoftDelete that
"Trash"es the file, puts it in the rescued folder?

Comments?

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