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Microsoft Please Fix (lemmy.zip)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by [email protected] to c/programmer_humor

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"Discard changes" is usually equivalent to "cancel" or "quit without saving". Not shift+delete files lol.

[–] BatmanAoD 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Well, yeah, that's why they updated the warning pop-up. It's still the case that the user didn't bother to find out what the warning meant before choosing the inherently destructive option.

Here's the revised pop-up, according to the linked ticket:

I haven't checked the current behavior (this whole incident was seven years ago).