3 Oct
2001
3 Oct
'01
12:08 p.m.
It was thus said that the Great Tony Duell once stated:
Sorry, but it's still not helpful. Could it not be opened because the
file doesn't exist? The volume it's on doesn't exist? Do I have
permissions to open the file? Is it locked by another application? Was
there a hardware fai~~~~~~~~~~~~[
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OK
It's not that they don't describe the
real problem that annoys me most
it's messages like "File not found" with no indication of what file was
being looked for. An error message should dump all the (relevant)
information available at the point when the error was detected.
Ah, but all that relevant information is part of the 'real problem'.
'File Not Found' doesn't describe the problem at all. 'Could not open
FOO.DAT' is a lot more helpful.