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[Isaac]

When it comes to users' expectations, I just like apps that keep in line with what they've been visually cued, or otherwise environmentally prepped, to expect.

and yes, I think it's kind of humorous that new people come in here all the time "I can't believe Access saves everything right away", and we try to convince them that all apps do that and it's totally normal, then another 100 new people come in here and say the same thing, and again we try to convince them that it's normal, that all apps do that -- wash,rinse,repeat.

it IS a bit much

 

[Marshall Brooks]

Think about how less friendly earlier versions of this forum software were when they didn't save your post for you

Been there, and when there weren't extensions like Typio, etc.

Somewhat darned either way for the software developers. Nobody wants to lose 15 minutes of typing and nobody wants to not be able to "revert to Saved" and drop their changes.

I'm not sure that the people complain about the save. They only want to know how to control it and since it is controllable (if you know how), it is never a problem.

Access isn't only used by developers. Often, people have just heard it comes with Office and someone decides a database would be better than Excel, and maybe we should look into this. (I'm somewhat speaking from my experience.)

People complain when they get a database that was created this way and they say I didn't mean to change this, how do I get it back like it was, and the answer is "Well, it's saved now, we'll have to figure out what it should/used to say and have someone change it back for you. Might take a while."