On May 22, 2016, at 10:16 AM, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:

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>>> And I don't think that people that yank the power cord should be catered to. If you do stupid things, you should pay the consequences. A computer isn't a toaster. And teachers should convey that to their students.
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>> Are you a parent?  Children are human beings.
> Well I’m not a parent (that I know of) and I’m not *entirely* sure children are human beings, but when they’re my customers and get all teary after losing their painstakingly put together scripts, then I get irritated by the system being less helpful than it could be.
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> Besides, in a busy classroom (have you ever been a room full of excited 6 year olds) things get tripped over, snagged on waving arms, knocked over in the sheer drama of *making an LED flash!!!!* and so on. So yeah, we should flush everything possible when writing out a script. In fact I should probably see about making autosave of some form now I think of it.

Make sure it makes backup copies that don't trash the existing backup copies, before it saves over the image. The plug could get pulled at any point.  Only rename is quick enough and repairable enough to consider atomic.

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> tim
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