Re: Dangerous "feature?"

On Thursday 19 February 2009 04:42:19 Andras Mantia wrote:
> On Thursday 19 February 2009, Simon Dawson wrote:
> > My normal behaviour  is that I get two dialogue boxes appear. The
> > first is 'Are yousue you want toremove from project?' and the next is
> > 'Do you want to remove the files from the server as well?' so I'm not
> > really sure why yours is not asking the second question.
>
> That's the default behavior. He probably checked once the "Do not ask
> again" checkbox in the dialog. I'm sorry to say, but this was a user
> error...

I'm sorry but that simply does not fly. A professional designer has as much 
responsibility for not taking into account worst possible oversight by the 
user. That might not be easy... Where do you draw the line?

But before deleting actual files in an environment where you remove virtual 
files from the application all the time, there must always be a warning. 

How often have you been there totally tired, and/or lost in a logic problem 
and pressed the wrong button?

It is easy to be in the "virtualness" of a computer and not always realize 
that this is not just a virtual file but an actual file. Often times there 
are situations where another question of "Are You Sure?", is just annoying. 
But when it comes to actually removing a physical file there either needs to 
be a second option to turn off "Are You Sure?" besides the first one, or some 
way of backing out of the delete.

There probably needs to be color and sound to make sure you are really there 
paying attention to what is about to happen. Or, the function of deleting 
files are placed somewhere else and cannot be done at the same time as 
removing it from the program.

We spend many hours toiling over a program, to then have it deleted because we 
did not pay attention is not economical. Better to have to click once too 
often than deleting all the hard work.

Anther option would be to always keep backup files which are not removed with 
the campaign. Which, yes is really something every pro user should always do 
anyway. (I use RAID 10 on my home partition, in which key dirs are backed up 
through rsync every hour to a RAID 6 server, very easy and since it only 
backs up the Delta it's also fast. Certain key directories of that is in turn 
copied to a third computer.) 

Quanta is a tool. The more it can do for us the better it is. If it can cover 
for us when we mess up, then it's a better tool. The same idea is visible in 
Sweden where Volvo trucks have developed a program which can tell when the 
drivers eyes are closed and take action.

That is a good tool. It's being proactive. Hell, if Quanta came with a rsync 
script for those who wish to use it then it would be even better. It's all 
about using this bigger tool, the computer, to make it do things for us. And 
at times, save our butt!


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Bobby