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Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: Splitting the tropes into a separate index, started by MarqFJA on Sep 12th 2010 at 2:27:11 AM

Previous Trope Repair Shop thread: Misused, started by MathsAngelicVersion on Feb 15th 2018 at 1:54:10 PM

A frequent trope that I don't see mentioned, although its related to the Exact Progress Bar, is the conceit of the copy process with progress bar—-it might be called Suspenseful File Copy. Sometimes its a download, sometimes an upload, but its always under extreme time pressure (especially where a bad guy is about to show up and put a stop to the whole plot device). Key elements are removable media and a progress bar on a monitor, and a basic anachronistic notion is that you have to go to the machine and physically copy something. My latest sighting of this little device was in Ironman Mark One—-it would be interesting to figure out what the earliest occurrence is...

A frequent trope that I don't see mentioned, although its related to the Exact Progress Bar, is the conceit of the copy process with progress bar—-it might be called Suspenseful File Copy. Sometimes its a download, sometimes an upload, but its always under extreme time pressure (especially where a bad guy is about to show up and put a stop to the whole plot device). Key elements are removable media and a progress bar on a monitor, and a basic anachronistic notion is that you have to go to the machine and physically copy something. My latest sighting of this little device was in Ironman Mark One—-it would be interesting to figure out what the earliest occurrence is...

So, where does the Site Deleted instantaneousness happen? I've seen shows have someone delete a site online, and an unmanned computer suddenly blips to "Site Deleted". IRL, it'd be stored on the computer, and they'd at least have to refresh the page. And often times, they'll wind up with a cached version that can be tricky to bypass (much to my annoyance online at times)