<p><a href="https://github.com/dreamlayers" class="user-mention">@dreamlayers</a> as someone once said "who knew it was so hard to simply write a file", especially portably safely and performantly on different systems with different capabilities.  The default is <code>use_gio_unsafe_file_saving</code> because it works in the most cases including mixed systems writing across networks.</p>
<p>But its not perfect which is why there are the other options.</p>
<p>The wiki was based on what GIO did when it was written, that may have changed.</p>

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