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And this is how, kids, generations of managers can’t find back their word and excel files they received zipped and edited in the doomed AppData Temp folder.
by 10729287 3y ago
And this is how, kids, generations of managers can’t find back their word and excel files they received zipped and edited in the doomed AppData Temp folder.
- TMWNN 3y agoI guess it was a fundamental mistake on Plummer's part to not make said temp directory read-only, to force people to copy files out of the folder before editing it?
- lozenge 3y agoI think, if you press "Open" in IE on the file download dialog, it goes to temp. Then, the default for zips is to extract to the same folder. So, the original mistake was offering people to open downloads without saving them first. I'm pretty sure they removed that later, around the time "mark of the web" was added (a metadata on downloaded files that triggered extra/different confirmation dialogs on opening the file).
- wannacboatmovie 3y agoThat 'mistake' has become so widely used and depended on, corporate IT departments complained so loudly that Microsoft was forced to add that feature into Edge after IE was retired. I'm not sure if it was backported to Chrome or remains an Edge-unique feature.
- anthk 3y agoGnome (Nautilus/Files) by default uncompress any file in the spot and you see the resulting folder at the side.