Sounds like these two posts may be relating to the same issue. Rick Gordon
------------------ On 1/10/11 at 4:24 PM -0800, WebbWebs wrote in a message entitled "The bug that won't die.": >I just uncovered a bug in the latest release of BBEdit (9.6.2) that >has stopped my development cold. Unfortunately, I'm trying to get an >application completed so I can fly from Denver to New Orleans in the >morning for a major website install . > >I was doing doing a fairly simple global text search on a very large >directory that contains several thousand files. I do this quite >frequently and typically without complication. Normally I would do the >find/replace, saving the changes immediately, with the application >only advising me of the the changes that were made. In this particular >instance, my search was not unique enough that I could be absolutely >certain I would only change what I anticipated changing. So I modified >my parameters to have BBEdit make the changes, but leave the files >open and unsaved. I know my search was at least unique enough that I >should only end up with a couple dozen files open at most. > >Unfortunately, I did not get the results I expected. BBEdit began to >open every single file in the master directory (several thousand), >marking the pages as changed and leaving them open. There is >absolutely no reason that any of these files should have been changed >with the submitted query... but they WERE. > >After about 30 minutes (at which time new files were being loaded >rather slowly due to memory constraints), I finally force-quit BBEdit. >But, to my dismay (and as I anticipated), once BBEdit was relaunched, >it went into perpetual "beach-ball mode", while preparing to reload >the thousands of files that were loaded previously. > >Does anybody have a clue how to kill this bug from Hell? I tried >calling the support number but it was already too late to catch them >today. If I have to wait until tomorrow to get a reply, I'll be >required to cancel my flight. > >Thanks for any help > >Jack ------------------ On 1/10/11 at 7:40 AM -0800, StanW wrote in a message entitled "Scarry Find and Replace": >Using BBEdit 9.6.2: > >I have been a long time user of BBEdit. I often use Find and Replace >for a bunch of sites. For example today I wanted to change all of my >footers to 2011 from 2010. It looks as if BBEdit changed the 6 or so >footers across my sites, but it also saved all (everyone) of my >webpages so they now have today's modification date. I have no idea >what else BBEdit changed, but how can I trust it? > >Can anyone tell me what happened? I will try to find 9.6.1 and revert; >this did not happen with that and earlier versions. > >Thank you > >Stan -- ___________________________________________________ RICK GORDON EMERALD VALLEY GRAPHICS AND CONSULTING ___________________________________________________ WWW: http://www.shelterpub.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "BBEdit Talk" discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at <http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en> If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit>
