[PD-dev] Naming of patch when doing a "save as"

[Jamie Bullock]

> On 16 Sep 2019, at 12:53, Dan Wilcox <danomatika at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Am 15. September 2019 19:46:10 MESZ schrieb jakob skouborg <syntaxerror60 at hotmail.com <mailto:syntaxerror60 at hotmail.com>>:
>>> 
>>> What are your thoughts about this?
>>> 
>> 
>> to be honest, i didnt even notice.
>> usually, if i "save as" any suggested filename is wrong.
> 
> One reason this was changed, I believe, is that some people were accidentally overwriting there patches when they forgot to change the original name.

But if you attempt to overwrite a file with the same name from the Save as… dialog you get a warning modal “<filename> already exists. Do you want to replace it?” [cancel | replace]. I’m not sure it’s really possible to “accidentally” overwrite a patch with that mechanism in place.

Jamie


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