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[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works -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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[–] 13igTyme@piefed.social 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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[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works -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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