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[–] 47 points 9 months ago (6 children)

Up arrow to a cloud, or down arrow to a platter (which, ironically, is also out-of-date)

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  • [–] 18 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    You just described upload and download, not save.

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  • [–] -2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    No, download would be a down arrow from a cloud. "Saving" on a modern system typically implies a local cache paired with a cloud backend.

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  • [–] -2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    is there a difference between download and save?

    You're viewing information held in temp memory and are committing it to a hard drive or more permanent cloud drive for later retrieval.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Yes there is a difference. If you already have the information on your drive you don't download every time you make an edit.

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  • [–] -1 points 9 months ago

    I think you've misunderstood my point:

    Web app > data is in temp > save commits it to disk

    Offline app > data is in temp > save commits it to disk

    does "temp" meaning RAM, user directory, remote cloud directory, browser temp files, WordPress backend db and "disk" meaning hard drive or one-drive or Google drive or the permanent remote cloud directory, or production db significantly alter the concept of the function?

    Might be controversial, but I think "no." I don't think there is a difference between me "saving", for example, a web page in WordPress as the final version, and me "saving" the offline wire frame design to my hard drive, and me "saving" a PDF of the web page to my downloads folder.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Hard to disk drives are still around but you might want to make it look generically like a generic that could also be an SSD just as easy

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    The difficult part would be depicting a SSD. It's just a rectangle.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Maybe put a folder inside the rectangle?

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago*

    Tell that to anyone needing a large amount of storage that is instantly available; the newest HDDs with 30TB storage hit the central European market this July. Remarkably, the best value offering is a 28TB HDD @ 14,25€ / TB.

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