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It is not the state of the PROGRAM, it's the "state of the DESKTOP". You have your art tool running, a browser with a dozen open windows, a couple PDFs open, a
by daly 10y ago
It is not the state of the PROGRAM, it's the "state of the DESKTOP".
You have your art tool running, a browser with a dozen open windows, a couple PDFs open, a chat window with the art group, and all of the other open applications. POOF. Gone.
It's like someone came to your office and "cleaned off your desk". Some of us rely on where things are as part of our "external memory". Do you remember which 3 PDFs (aka books) you were looking at last night?
The image might not be lost but WHERE you were working on the image, the state of your toolbox, what brush you were using, what color you had picked, etc. are mostly all in your head and reflected on the desktop.
That said, it is truly ARROGANT to reboot someone else's computer without permission.
Next time you go to work, walk around and reboot everyone's computer while they are working. See how that goes.
- egypturnash 10y agoI've gotten very very spoilt by OSX trying very hard to retain information about what was open when you reboot, I suppose. At any moment I've got like four or five different desktops set up with various numbers of windows related to the task I'm doing on that desktop, and those will all come back if I reboot. I still find the "save early, save often" habit very worthwhile. Hell, maybe I'm also spoilt by the fact that Illustrator defaults to re-loading a file with the view sized and centered exactly the same way it was when you last saved it. Even with all these things making life easy for me, I'm still saying that "don't walk away from your art app with anything you'd be sad to lose unsaved" is a habit worth having. I am not defending Windows rebooting and ignoring unsaved changes in the least. That is inexcusable.