[Sugar-devel] Customized Sugar

[Tony Anderson]

Hi,

What is being deleted is the locally cached copy of a file which is 
stored on the school server. If the user needs it, it can be downloaded 
again.

Tony

On 11/23/2011 11:56 AM, Hal Murray wrote:
>
>> On the laptop, it would be easy to set up a quota for the datastore in
>> which the demon could remove documents from the local store on an LRU  basis
>> when the datastore exceeds the quota. This would avoid having the  student
>> get involved in managing the Nand.
>
> I'd be really annoyed if some chunk of software that I didn't even know about
> deleted a file that I wanted.
>
> Some concepts associated with using a computer are important.  I think it
> would be a mistake to try to hide them.
>
> What's a non-computer analogy to running out of disk or memory?  I see two
> issues: 1) disk space is limited, and 2) it is shared by various activities.
> (If you save a lot of pictures or download a lot of music, you may run out of
> room for your school work.)
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