From: "Robert Comer" 

>I don't know of any software that saves your files before your machine
>shuts
> down.

That doesn't mean it can't be done, it just takes a little bit more
programming.  I really don't understand why nobody has done it yet. (for
the big apps anyway)

> Pretty much anything else I use asks the user if they want to save before
> shutting down.

If it's smart enough to ask, it's smart enough to save to a temp file...

--
Bob Comer


"Geo"  wrote in message news:44537dd5{at}w3....
>I don't know of any software that saves your files before your machine
>shuts
> down.
>
> Autocad does have an autosave feature, but it's on a timer and it doesn't
> overwrite your drawing file, it saves to an autosave file. They came up
> with
> that because it crashes a lot.
>
> Pretty much anything else I use asks the user if they want to save before
> shutting down.
>
> Geo.
>
> "Antti Kurenniemi" 
wrote in message
> news:4452f85b$1{at}w3....
>> I know, I didn't mean it like "your own fault for not saving
data". I'm
> just
>> saying that a good app design would help in cases like this, where
> something
>> unexpected happens. Simply shutting down the system automagically is
> really
>> a shitty thing to do for an update.
>>
>>
>> Antti Kurenniemi
>
>

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