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Déjà Bru · 08-28-2016, 12:57 PM

It has been a consistent theme in my career to be frustrated with program error messages that may make all the sense in the world to the programmers but are indecipherable by the average user.

In this case, a simple statement such as "Cannot overwrite existing league files - enter new folder name" would be much more helpful than "RESTORE_DIALOG:::start_restore - could not create target folder." I don't know how it would be done, but I am sure that it could be done if programmers gave the time and made the effort.

08-28-2016, 12:57 PM	#4
Déjà Bru Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: United States Posts: 10,456	It has been a consistent theme in my career to be frustrated with program error messages that may make all the sense in the world to the programmers but are indecipherable by the average user. In this case, a simple statement such as "Cannot overwrite existing league files - enter new folder name" would be much more helpful than "RESTORE_DIALOG:::start_restore - could not create target folder." I don't know how it would be done, but I am sure that it could be done if programmers gave the time and made the effort. __________________ - Bru Last edited by Déjà Bru; 08-28-2016 at 01:09 PM.