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Comment by alex7734 | Hacker News Reader

You need to take a screenshot, save it, crop it and then resave over the same file.

I mean it's bad, but... who does that?

EDIT: It also happens if you take a completely different screenshot and just save over (overwrite) another (bigger) image. That's worse, but still not that common IMHO.

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> who does that?

Programmers do it all day ... with text files.

Would you say the same thing if when you deleted some code it would actually still be there at the end of the file, after two pages of spaces?

When you delete something and save it in a "final" format (like a PNG), you expect nothing which was deleted to be there.

I don't think the comment was about expected behavior. It's about who would be suspetible to this. Saving text files is fine all the time, you're right. They're saying, how often do people perform the steps in that order?

It is extremely common for me to realize I don't like the screenshot I took, and to save the replacement over the original file. It is pretty common for me to be more selective about what is in the replacement, and hence for it to be smaller than the original triggering this bug.

It's a relatively uncommon scenario, granted, but when you multiply those odds by the number of screenshots that get shared on a daily basis, it's pretty bad imho.

I would say that's the common case?

1. Take screenshot

2. Open screenshot

3. Edit screenshot

4. Save screenshot

I don't think that "Save As..." the common case.

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