Bug:"Another application has updated the file"

[hhuang]

I just purchased and installed Textpad 4.7.2 and when I open some files, I keep on getting the meesage:

Another application has updated the file ....

And I'm very sure no any other application touch those files.

[hhuang]

No matter I click on "yes" or "no", the message come back right away and I have to kill the textpad and start again with "ignore updates" option before I can get any work done.

[Jens Hollmann]

I would rather guess that there is a process running that accesses the files you are talking about without you knowing about it. I never had trouble with this feature.

Try filemon from sysinternals to see if anyone accesses the file in question.

If TextPad is the only process accessing the file and you still get the dialog box, than you should post this issue to helios support. Maybe you have a special file system configuration.

HTH

Jens

[helios]

If you get spurious notifications that a file has been modified, try checking the option to "Ignore differences in modification times less than 2 seconds" on the File Preferences page. (MS Windows caches remote files and the cached copy can get out of sync with some Netware and Unix file systems.)

I hope this helps.

[hhuang]

I'm using XP with unix system mapped as network driver. The file keep on reporting updated has time stamp in Unix as March 13.

I have the "ignore 2 seconds" option enabled. Any other thing I can try?

[helios]

Please try the following:

From the Configure menu choose:

1. Preferences
2. File
3. Check the option to "Keep files locked while editing them"
4. Click Apply / OK.