On Sun, 26 Feb 2023 20:03:15 -0000, dgb <dgbisat@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 26/02/2023 19:54, Ken Blake wrote:
>> On Sun, 26 Feb 2023 11:34:30 +0000, dgb <dgbisat@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 26/02/2023 10:12, FromTheRafters wrote:
>>>> dgb formulated the question :
>>>>> On 26/02/2023 04:36, Commander Kinsey wrote:
>>>>>> On Tue, 14 Feb 2023 21:04:26 -0000, David Brooks
>>>>>> <DavidB@a.new.address> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 14/02/2023 20:10, FromTheRafters wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>>>>>> Agreed, but I didn't even consider the destination since he was
>>>>>>>> talking
>>>>>>>> about the source.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm fairly sure you once told me that if one can see an image on one's
>>>>>>> computer screen it will be 'engraved' on one's computer /somewhere./
>>>>
>>>> I don't believe that I used 'engraved' but I may have said that seeing a
>>>> photo on your screen means that you downloaded it. By download I don't
>>>> mean it has to land on the HD or in your 'downloads' directory. Your
>>>> browser possibly uses the disk for some temp files. Basically, I was
>>>> saying "If you see it on your computer, it is there already." If you
>>>> play a copyrighted video file, it is there, if you move it from there to
>>>> another directory, you might be liable for copyright infringement.
>>>>
>>>> Streaming 'downloads' a stream a chunk at a time so you may never
>>>> actually have the 'whole thing' at any time.
>>>
>>> All understood.
>>>
>>>>>>> I always have imagined that that 'somewhere' would be on one's hard
>>>>>>> drive.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Your imagination is incorrect. It could be in RAM, which disappears
>>>>>> if you cut the power.
>>>>>
>>>>> Someone else claimed that! Thank you. :-)
>>>>
>>>> No, you just told us that you 'imagined' it going to the HD.
>>>
>>> Yes, I did say that! Someone else ('nospam'?) claimed that RAM was
>>> another place to store data in addition to one's hard drive.
>>
>>
>>
>> RAM is another place where data can be, but I wouldn't call that
>> "storing." To me, "storing" implies permanence.
>
> Agreed. Most folk store things on either their own hard drive or in The
> Cloud and, with a Mac, on a Time Machine back-up drive too.

I hate clouds, I want to know where the file is, not assume some automatic thing will synch things correctly.