Arguably, you are downloading something temporary that you’re doing in the RAM into your system’s more permanently writable disk for longer-term storage, but I know what you’re saying.
To be clear, I personally like the disk icon, but the question presumes that you provide an alternative so that was what I did.
Really all I’m saying is - if you had to twist my arm and do away with the disk icon - considering the abstraction involved with what the action ultimately represents, the “download” icon (down arrow + underline) is a close enough approximation that users (both new and old) could mentally map the action well enough to understand the logic.
I’m not downloading when I save a file I edited locally on my computer.
Arguably, you are downloading something temporary that you’re doing in the RAM into your system’s more permanently writable disk for longer-term storage, but I know what you’re saying.
To be clear, I personally like the disk icon, but the question presumes that you provide an alternative so that was what I did.
Really all I’m saying is - if you had to twist my arm and do away with the disk icon - considering the abstraction involved with what the action ultimately represents, the “download” icon (down arrow + underline) is a close enough approximation that users (both new and old) could mentally map the action well enough to understand the logic.
But like, what if, you’re like … “downloading” the file … from memory … to disk? … man?