On Oct 24, 2006, at 10:29 AM, Carole Mah wrote:
Recently I started using Interarchy, because unlike the SFTP Browser, it doesn't "time out" and make me re-connect every five minutes.
The SFTP browser, in my experience, doesn't time out unless the server tells it to. I've opened a connection to a server, worked for a bit, walked away for hours, come back, and the connection is still alive. So if BBEdit is forced to reconnect every five minutes, then anything else that connects to your server probably is too -- it might just be that you're noticing with BBEdit, while perhaps Interarchy does it silently.
However, I've noticed two attendent problems: 1.) If the only way a document has been opened in BBEdit is via a right-click "Edit with BBEdit" in Interarchy, then the document never appears on the "Open Recent" menu in BBEdit.
And you probably don't want it to. Even if you turn on the secret preference to show temp files in the Open Recent menu, it's going to...well, it's going to do exactly that, open the temp files. When you open a file in BBEdit from Interarchy, it creates a temporary version of that file on your local drive, and so the item in the Open Recent menu would point to the temp file on your hard drive, not the original on your remote server.
2.) Usually if I want to make a new File Group so as to bookmark and open a whole bunch of related documents on launch the next time, I make sure to drag and drop all the open documents in the Documents Drawer over into a new File Group, and then when I re-launch BBEdit the next day, I launch via the saved File Group and select all the documents, then select "Open". However, this does not work if the documents in the Documents Drawer were previously opened from inside Interarchy (via the same right-click "Edit with BBEdit"). I suppose these are both symptoms of the same problem.
Yes, they are. Same reason. When you drag files from the Drawer to a new File Group, it's dragging pointers to the temp files, not the remote files.
When you use BBEdit's S/FTP, it manages all this for you, but when you use an external client, it can't.
The way around this is to create your file group by opening all the files with BBEdit's S/FTP, and dragging them into the group. Then saving works the same way on your end as it would have with Interarchy -- just command-S, and it saves your file to the remote server.
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