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I believe this should grow into an article to which people can link terms such as save, load, open and close in computing articles (when referring to files, of course). - dcljr 01:28, 25 Sep 2004 (UTC)
(Discussion moved from Village Pump.)
After looking around for an appropriate link for the word save in a computing-related article (thus, save as in save my document), I'm wondering whether there's any Wikipedia article about the entire phenomenon of saving and loading documents (and auto-saving, etc.) in computing and how there has been a shift away from that model in user interface design. Seems like it could be an interesting article if someone could start it (I couldn't say much more about it than I have here). - dcljr 05:41, 18 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Like, with database applications and data-bindings? These aren't anything really new, (if that's what you're referring to). However, an article on the act of opening a file, editing it, and saving it, as well as discussing bindings, sounds like a good idea to me. Er, to use an example of someone who would find this useful: my mother is often confused about such things. She will open a document, inadvertantly make a change, and then she will try to close the document. When she does, she gets a dialog asking if she wants to save... which worries her, because she believes that if she doesn't save, the document might somehow get deleted. ;-) func(talk) 08:52, 18 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Save is now a disambig page. violet/riga (t) 11:54, 25 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Evan Donovan 00:23, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
So is "File Manager" a subset of this page? It appears to me that the concept of "File Management" in this context is obviously within the Portal of computing. Prefacing it with Computer is probably redundant, else we must rename the other to "Computer File Manager" So consistency appears to be missing here.
Also, if the reader is searching for something that helps manage files by organising them, then this article fails in that part of the implied coverage of the subject. As it sits, one may be confused by the subject matter. - KitchM (talk) 17:51, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
That section currently distinguishes "directories" and "folders" based on what they are called, and lists some Windows-compatible file systems. Computer file has sections with a purpose similar to that paragraph, so maybe the paragraph can be deleted with no data loss. --AVRS (talk) 13:42, 16 February 2014 (UTC)