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kalleboo on Aug 4, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: OS X Mountain Lion: Data Loss via 'Save As'

I did some googling and it seems like Windows 8 Metro apps might have similarly neutered file handling. Has anyone tried it out and can report?

brudgers on Aug 5, 2012 [–]

My understanding is that Metro tends to sandbox an apps data in a way analogous to that of a mobile OS. I believe the intent is to prevent one Metro app from overwriting another apps data or corrupting the file system.

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