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Bug:"Another application has updated the file"
Posted: Mon May 03, 2004 5:04 pm
by 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.
This message does not go away
Posted: Mon May 03, 2004 5:06 pm
by 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.
Posted: Tue May 04, 2004 6:53 am
by 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
Posted: Tue May 04, 2004 10:24 am
by 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.
Posted: Tue May 04, 2004 10:56 pm
by 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?
Posted: Wed May 05, 2004 7:55 pm
by 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.