Hi all,

I'm able to workaround the problem by turning off "Automatically refresh 
documents as they change on disk" in Preferences->Application.

--Gerry

On Jan 26, 2010, at 5:43 PM, Gerry Panganiban wrote:

> I can confirm that this happens to me quite often as well. My files are 
> mounted via SMB (samba) from a linux server. More often than not, the 
> 'modified' dialog comes up right after I choose "File->Save" or cmd-S a file 
> that I've modified. If I choose 'reload from disk' then my changes are lost. 
> If I choose the other option, my file is intact but not saved. Saving the 
> file a second time usually works. 
> 
> --Gerry
> 
> On Jan 26, 2010, at 5:28 PM, bunner bob wrote:
> 
>> On Jan 25, 4:42 pm, Doug McNutt <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> The "modified" dialog comes up when something has changed the file on disk 
>>> so that it doesn't reliably represent what BBEdit read when it opened the 
>>> file.
>>> 
>>> I make use of that a lot because I am often using BBEdit to display 
>>> something that is being written by other software. BBEdit complains if I 
>>> accidentally try to modify the file but it is quite happy to reload a 
>>> revised version automatically if I haven't made changes.
>>> 
>>> Is anyone else making changes on the server? I would imagine that BBEdit 
>>> uses time-last-modified tests to detect changes. Are the clocks on server 
>>> and client synchronized?
>> 
>> Definitely nobody else making changes. This is a micro network of just
>> two of us plus the server.
>> 
>> Just happened again. I opened an older BBEdit project and BBE updated
>> it to a ".bbprojectd" file. Then about 5 seconds later, up pops this
>> warning that the file may have been changed on disk by another
>> application. My options are "Cancel" and "Save Anyway". I'm not
>> actually "saving" anything - the project is updated, no files are
>> open. Clicking Cancel just makes the dialog pop up again.
>> 
>> I hit Cancel then closed it before the dialog had a chance to
>> reappear. Then reopened. Seems ok for the moment.
>> 
>> But this frequently happens after doing a "save as" with a new name.
>> Could something in the OS be modifying the files after I save them?
>> 
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