"Catastrophic failure" - An example of an error message that gets an immediate nomination to categories "useless error messages" and "return of the Captain Obvious". What is the purpose of an error message? To tell the user: A) what happened, B) why it happened, C) how the user can safely recover from this error situation and D) how to prevent such errors from happening in the future. So thanks for telling me that a catastrophic failure happened, I wouldn't had guessed it when everything stopped working...
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