Dr. Hawkins wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 3:02 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: >> >> What is a "background" save? > > doesn't it periodically update the ~ rescue file, or some such? > > If not, then it's recognizing a problem and attempting to save
Probably the latter (almost certainly so given the subsequent posts from others about RC4 that have come in).
The ~ file is the first of two steps the engine takes when saving: whenever a save command is issues for a stack file, the engine first makes a backup of the last saved copy to the ~ filw, then writes a fresh copy into the original file name, and after completing the checksum on that it deletes the ~ file.
This is probably borne of Dr. Raney's Unix roots - LC originated on Unix where that sort of auto-backup is common.
This save bug seems like a particularly nasty regression, but the bug reports from Eric and Trevor hopefully RunRev will get an RC5 out ASAP.
-- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web ____________________________________________________________________ ambassa...@fourthworld.com http://www.FourthWorld.com _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
