Re: Moving open files

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

Even if there were a lock file, the result of moving the files using
'mv' would be the same--data loss. 'Mv' is a very simple application
that doesn't know about file locks, and it might move *both* the
original and lock files to a new location--effectively destroying the lock.

The only safe way to move files when OOo is open is to do that within
OOo. Years ago I used StarOffice which had a built-in file manager, but
OOo seems to have removed that feature, or perhaps, I just don't know
how to find it.


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