Re: Moving open files

2008/7/7 Derek Broughton <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
Dotan Cohen wrote:

2008/7/7 Derek Broughton <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
It can't be KDE's, because OO isn't a KDE app.


KDE's Dolphin was used to move the file, I should have been clearer.

That doesn't matter though. It's up to the application to handle the
(re)moving of a file safely.

What, exactly, is the loss?

The original file (in the new location) does not contain the changes.
You could argue that the changes remain in the old location, but the
user does not know to even look there. For him, the data is lost.
...
As Carl-Mitchell mentioned, OOo should have locked the file. I am
unfamiliar with file locks, but now that I know about the problem I
will try to reproduce it locally and file a bug at OOo.

No, sorry, I don't agree with that. You may not like the behaviour, but it
is logical. Would you still think it's a bug if the user had just _copied_
the original, and then there were two different versions? I can't do
exactly the same thing with Word, because it _does_ lock the file, but
that's a design choice.

In my opinion, and the opinion of he who 'lost' his data, there should
be a lock file.

By all means, file a bug report, but I wouldn't be terribly surprised if
they won't consider it. Of course, if nobody files a bug report, they
_definitely_ won't consider it :-)

Thanks, I will file it. Maybe it could be optional.

Dotan Cohen

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