Comment on Modern Windows in a nutshell

• TheProtagonist@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  No, thanks!

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  • wetbeardhairs@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    MS disabled the auto-save function for anything on a local disk, which is necessary for me because I use *gasp* version control software.

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    • The_v@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If you turn off a few of Microsoft’s more insane tracking in the privacy settings, it disables the autosave “feature”. The autosave fucked up version tracking badly enough that it was nice to have a global kill button.

      I have found that turning off most new “features” that Microsoft makes recently is usually for the best.

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    • bleistift2@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Makes sense. You wouldn’t want to hammer that file onto disk every second.

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      • wetbeardhairs@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yes I do. I made a change. Save it. My disk can take it.

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      • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        in good software autosave happens with a slight delay of 10 seconds or so. It’s really not uncommon.

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  • Burninator05@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Auto-saving works great except when I’m using an existing document as a template to make a new one only to remember 45 minutes in that I forgot to disable auto-save or make a copy to start with and the original document is gone.

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    • TheProtagonist@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Oh yes, I had this too. Templates filled with random content from various team members. Now we switched to dotx templates to avoid this kind of situation.

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