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To: JoeDetweiler
So....what happens if you do shut your computer off while it’s updating? I can’t believe it would be anything too terrible.

Absolutely nothing bad should happen in such a case. The update should either succeed or fail completely. It should not matter if the update is run half a time, a full time, and then reattempted. This is elementary software engineering.

10 posted on 04/01/2015 9:59:07 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: cynwoody

> Absolutely nothing bad should happen in such a case. The update should either succeed or fail completely. It should not matter if the update is run half a time, a full time, and then reattempted. This is elementary software engineering.

Well, simply not booting correctly on the next restart can be devastating to the non-savvy user. Sure, nothing “bad” happened, all the files were still there, but the user was sweating and crying. That’s bad in their book...


13 posted on 04/01/2015 10:11:21 PM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is...sounding pretty good about now.)
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To: cynwoody

Put it to sleep.


25 posted on 04/02/2015 6:27:56 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you are not part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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