Re: Zealous 'file format' save notifications

2016-11-02 Thread Bob Sneidar
If a developer has no backup of his files before proceeding on so treacherous an endeavor, so fraught with peril as saving a file in an older format, well then that developer may get what he deserves. ;-) Bob S On Nov 1, 2016, at 17:46 , Ben Rubinstein mailto:benr...@cogapp.com>> wrote: Mont

Re: Zealous 'file format' save notifications

2016-11-02 Thread Bob Sneidar
Agreed, but I cannot help but be reminded of Microsoft's famous disclaimer that downloading a file ending in .doc, .xls or .pptp is "inherently dangerous". ;-) Bob S On Nov 1, 2016, at 15:53 , Monte Goulding mailto:mo...@appisle.net>> wrote: This came about because the cost of determining if

Re: Zealous 'file format' save notifications

2016-11-01 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Monte wrote: This came about because the cost of determining if a file could be saved back to a pre-7 file version was too high yet the risk of not informing the user they are likely to loose data by doing so was also too high. But teaching people to ignore that dialog, because it appears wh

Re: Zealous 'file format' save notifications

2016-11-01 Thread Monte Goulding
This came about because the cost of determining if a file could be saved back to a pre-7 file version was too high yet the risk of not informing the user they are likely to loose data by doing so was also too high. > On 2 Nov. 2016, at 9:36 am, Ben Rubinstein wrote: > > I recently started work