[Design] "restore published shares.." menu option

Mimi Yin mimi at osafoundation.org
Wed Sep 5 17:13:15 PDT 2007


On Sep 4, 2007, at 10:35 PM, Davor Cubranic wrote:

> On Tuesday 04 September 2007 12:27:29 Mimi Yin wrote:
>> Even though we expect 'Restore Published Shares' to be used by end-
>> users, I still think of it as a hack...a tool we point people to when
>> something has gone wrong.
>
> Restore from .chex is in File menu though. Isn't using also sort of a
> hack?

Heh. Yes it's a hack, but it's the best one we've got! In other  
words, "Reload .chex" is the *recommended* way to migrate your data.  
"Restore published shares" is what you do when something goes wrong  
because it doesn't restore subscriptions, accounts or previously  
defined preferences.




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