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If you had to replace the floppy disk save symbol in software with a new symbol for saving what would you choose and why? (sopuli.xyz)
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[–] 171 points 10 months ago* (22 children)

An arrow pointing into a folder, similar to this. Sidesteps the tech issue altogether.

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  • [–] 90 points 10 months ago (7 children)

    I mean, you're just replacing one archaic symbol with another.

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago

    I agree. I heard recently a lot of kids under 20 grew up in an iPhone, iPad, and chrome world and never learned “folder” or directory concepts so it’s a tough transition in the work world. Paper organizers are not nearly as ubiquitous as they once were.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    It connects it to another computer symbol, the folder which is seen plenty of times as the thing containing files. It's a solid solution.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    Yea replace the 90s tech icon for the filing cabinet paper folder , from who knows when. It's actually a good suggestions this technology still hasn't disappeared. But it will soon, as foretold by the paperless office prophecies. So I think a half buried treasure chest icon would be better as a forever lasting icon.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (10 children)

    We should do away with directories. Just one big block of files.

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  • [–] 34 points 10 months ago (7 children)

    Screw multiple files, just use one big one. Just append anything you want to add and you'll have everything in 1 spot

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  • [–] 24 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    Makes sense. Then you can add some kind of index to the file so you can jump to the parts you want. Just track a list of chunks, so they don't have to be contiguous.

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  • [–] 26 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Yeah, and we could give that huge file some kind of internal and logical structure to find those chunks, maybe something hierarchical with human readable names!

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