[Github-comments] [geany/geany] Data loss when partition is full (#2494)

[elextr]

> There is no way to think that when exiting an editor after it says there is no more space left on device, that editor will null out your precious file! So expecting that the user will save his data elsewhere before exiting is clearly not the correct way...

The user just requested that the file be overwritten when they said "save".  Clearly the content of their "precious" file doesn't matter any more, its the contents of the Geany buffer that the user wants to save that is important.  

And as the wiki article says, failing to save does not alter the Geany buffer, its still available to save somewhere else, whatever the reason the save failed.  Save to a usb stick, save to a different drive, just save that precious buffer, and don't worry about the old file, they already said to overwrite it.

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