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What a save!
The word 'save.' Never understood why software moved on from words.
Not having to translate symbols would be one reason.
Probably an arrow pointing down inside of a circle, like the download icon. Most of the software I use just has text saying "Save file" and no icon, and I usually press control + S anyways so I don't have much of an opinion regarding this
The concept of saving is itself antiquated. Your data should always be saved.
I think the download icons will become synonymous with saving. It's functionally the same, move thingy to a location on your computer.
If the floppy disk was no longer the save symbol for software, and I had to chose one, I'd chose the floppy disk symbol.
But you worded your question wisely to avoid that loophole, so I'm not sure what to use instead for an otherwise unique and ubiquitous symbol, already known as "the save file icon" for two generations that have not seen it.
While we're at it, let's also replace the phone icons with a rectangle, as to not confuse anyone.
Arrow to disk.
Why a disk? Storage isn’t even disk shaped anymore.
Probably an arrow pointing to a hard drive.
Why a hard drive? Storage is moving to solid state. That icon would also be obsolete in a few years.
"Saving" a file should already be obsolete.
Filesystems should automatically retain history, so whenever you edit something it's already saved, with the ability to go back to any previous state.
No, please. I NEVER want a computer to take a decision for me (like save or discard changes). I turned off auto saving on Microsoft Office on my work computer after I unknowingly made some changes in a presentation from another team I was just looking at, and it saved those changes without my knowledge nor consent.
I work with several screens, have several windows of different programs open and, unfortunately, sometimes a keystroke doesn't go where I thought I was sending it (I'm probably getting old). Also sometimes windows from a different program come to focus unannounced and capture whatever you were typing or clicking.
Wouldn't that take a huge amount of space?
A cassette tape.
Hahahaha, dammit you win
Let's be real, when some shitty company (MS) gets around to it, it will be: ☁️⬆️
A CD image. Got to move with the times.
A quill
An SSD or HDD disk lol.
Something like the symbol Mac uses/used for external storage
5.25"floppy disk
The one true floppy
9"
A crucifix...
...because Jesus saves.
Early, and often.
When jesus saaaay "yes", nobody can't say "you don't have the permissions to write on this volume" 🎶
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🗄 or 🗃 come to mind.
Yes let's make it even more archaic
An arrow pointing into a folder, similar to this. Sidesteps the tech issue altogether.
Is there an icon that expresses the default cloud save location as well as the circuitous GUI you need to navigate yo select your desired location on local storage?
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