Save bug?

mo · Post by mo » Fri Jul 18, 2003 8:08 pm

Periodically I make a change, which changes the "Save" icon to colored from grayed out; then I click the icon to save and I get a "Save As" dialog box.

Clicking the "Save As" Dialog box off solves the problem.

This may not be TextPad, but may be my mouse producing double clicks (couldn't be me!). However, I have paid close attention and I do not think this is the case.

mo

Bob Hansen · Post by **Bob Hansen** » Sat Jul 19, 2003 2:11 am

The icon is grayed out once you have saved and made no changes. If no changes have been made and you click on Save icon, TextPad thinks you want to save it under another name, since it hasn't changed since your last save. Once you make a change, it is active again, not grayed out. It actually makes a lot of sense and easy to work with once you understand how it is working.

I periodically save by clicking on the Save icon. But only need to do that if the icon is not grayed out. If prompted to Save As, I ignore it because I know it hasn't changed since my last Save.

Hope this makes sense, and helps you......good luck,
Bob

mo · Post by mo » Sat Jul 19, 2003 3:13 am

Thanks for the reply, and I admit my English is sometimes convoluted, but I believe it correctly reads that it changes the grayed out icon (no changes made) to a colored one when I make a change (need to save), and that THEN, when I click the icon, it sometimes gives me the SAVE AS dialog box.

This just happened to me a bit ago, and I was watching carefully, and I did not double click. I suspect this is tied in with the wierd select action I get sometimes in TP.

Post by **bbadmin** » Sat Jul 19, 2003 5:53 am

When the Save As dialog box is displayed, in these circumstances, it indicates that the file has been modified or deleted by another process. I hope this helps.

Keith MacDonald
Helios Software Solutions

mo · Post by mo » Sat Jul 19, 2003 12:59 pm

What other process could that be? This is happening instantaneously (that is, it is saving the change, and bringing up the dialog) and I don't have another process running (that I know of) that would be acting on a textpad file.

mo

Post by **bbadmin** » Sat Jul 19, 2003 4:34 pm

The only thing I can suggest is your virus checker. They seem to be responsible for most such problems.

Keith MacDonald
Helios Software Solutions