On Thu, Nov 7, 2019 at 5:08 PM Segundo Bob <segundo...@gmail.com> wrote:
I think changing the user id is a bad solution. Alright then. That idea is dead. > My preferences are as follows from most preferable to least preferable. > > 1) Eliminate the generation of a GNX before reading a file. > Hmm. I wasn't aware that Leo did that. Why does this cause problems? Since the hidden root node always has GNX hidden-root-vnode-gnx, the > motivation for this GNX generation is very mysterious to me. > Me too :-) It seems reasonable to me, that if a file exists, then it should be read > before generating any GNX that might affect Leo-Editor's handling of the > file. If the file is read and all of its GNX's are known, then avoiding > duplicates is a solved problem. > I'll look into this. 2) Replace the current non-random GNX with a pseudo-random UUID. > We discussed this at length several years ago. It is not guaranteed to eliminate all gnx conflicts, though it probably would help. > you seem emotionally committed to your non-random GNX's, even > though, so far as I know, no one has ever made any significant use of > the information they contain. > I am willing to *add* data such as uuid's to gnx's, but not to *remove* data. I use the "non-random" part of gnx's, (the user id and timestamp) when investigating mysteries. Imo, it would be a bad mistake to toss that data. I look forward to your fix of this important-to-me problem. No matter > what your fix is. > I see that #1348 <https://github.com/leo-editor/leo-editor/issues/1348> is closed. In the last comment you congratulated Brian on his sleuthing, so I am surprised that the issue is still alive for you. Please create a new issue, referencing #1348 summarizing, as briefly as possible, the present state of affairs. I am happy to do what I can to help. Edward -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/CAMF8tS1xU_0K1ZZWB63e4xkKVgGOm3ii-js2RsvBD-%3Dat9R0Kg%40mail.gmail.com.
