November 1, 20232 yr When I click "Cancel" to abort a parity check, it asks if I'm sure. My choices are 'Proceed' or 'Cancel'. Does "Proceed" mean: Proceed with the Parity Check? Or proceed with the cancellation? Does "Cancel" mean: Cancel the Parity Check? Or Cancel the cancellation? From experience I know the latter of each pair is the correct interpretation, but it's more confusing than it should be: If you want to Cancel the Parity check, don't click "Cancel," it cancels the cancellation, not the parity check. If you want to Proceed with the parity check, don't click "Proceed," it proceeds with the cancellation, not the parity check. Luckily so far I've only got it wrong when I actually did want to cancel the check, so I can just get it right on the second try, no harm done. But this syntactic land mine is bound to occasionally blow up in the face of someone who wants to "Proceed" with the parity check and instead throws away dozens of hours of analysis. It would be nice if the button labels more accurately described their result, e.g. "Cancel Parity Check" and "Continue Parity Check".
November 2, 20232 yr 20 hours ago, u.stu said: throws away dozens of hours of analysis. The parity check tuning plugin can operate with segments of a check, so the consequences of a cancel aren't quite that dire, but your point about cancel vs proceed is definitely valid.
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