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.
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.