Feature Request for Office / Visual Studio | The Coffeehouse

JoshRoss
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I would like to see a feature, named "You Stupid F _ _ _." When prompted to save a document / project and you say no. Windows will automatically save it anyways, in a temporary folder. The longer you work on it, the longer it stays in the folder. If you are working on it for a few minutes it will stay there for a day. If you spent more time on it, perhaps it could persist for a week or two. What do you think?

EDIT: Proving that great minds think alike, Kettch posted that Office 2010 has this feature already.

Harlequin
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Office already does this. Which is why when you crash, you can recover. And I think VS2008 has the same.

Dodo
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In reply to Harlequin

#Oct 19th @ 10:52 AM

No, it doesn't. The temporary save state is deleted if you close the application and select you don't want to save (which makes sense). This is kind of stupid. We have enough storage to even run a versioning on everything we do with plaintext files, saved or not. Seriously, how much code do you need to write to fill a hard drive? Smiley

kettch

In reply to Dodo

#Oct 19th @ 11:50 AM

Office 2010 actually does do this.

http://blogs.technet.com/office2010/archive/2009/09/22/helping-you-recover-your-work-in-office-2010.aspx

ManipUni
Proving QQ for 5 years!

While I love the idea, the main problems are data security and privacy.

Did you see the huge freakout that happened when people discovered that Office stored undo/redo information within the Doc' format and thus people would wind back all the changes someone made while creating it. Needless to say it was big, bigger in the gov'/corp world within which such information could cost money/jobs.

JoshRoss
A righteous infliction of retribution manifested by an appropriate agent.

In reply to kettch

#Oct 19th @ 12:55 PM

Thanks Kettch! I had not seen that.

kettch

In reply to JoshRoss

#Oct 19th @ 1:44 PM

So, it is all well and good for Office. However, they really need to take Volume Shadow Copy/Previous Versions to the next level and have something akin to a source control system for libraries.

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In reply to kettch

#Oct 19th @ 1:58 PM

Yes. Versioning would need to happen at the filesystem layer, though (and shouldn't cross filesystems/email unless directed to). Too likely to result in disclosure of sensitive information.

I like TortoiseGit for this very reason. Dead simple to turn any folder into a version-controlled folder: it needs no central server or even any kind of central repository on your local machine (unlike Subversion). Even integrates nicely with Word, Excel, and Powerpoint (a diff opens their built-in comparison tools rather than trying to do a diff of the binary files).