• funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
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    5 hours ago

    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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      2 hours ago

      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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        2 hours 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.