On 4 Aug 2017, at 17:25, Hussein Shafie wrote:
On 08/04/2017 03:19 PM, Leif Halvard Silli wrote:
You said you fixed this last time I reported it.
Definitely not the same issue. You reported an issue about renaming a
folder on your Mac:
http://www.mail-archive.com/xmleditor-support@xmlmind.com/msg11536.html
This issue has indeed been solved.
Sorry for mixing up!
However, this seems not to be the case. Today I, for instance,
1. Chose a file in Google Drive via the interface of the XXE Google
Drive plug-in
2. Chose 'Copy' file.
3. Pasted the file.
Doing something this on my Linux box using the shell creates a copy of
the file and this copy has a new date: the date of the creation of the
copy, not the date of the original file.
$ cp foo bar
If I want to avoid this, I've to execute:
$ cp -p foo bar
Therefore this behavior can be considered to be normal. If we change
it, other users may complain for the opposite reasons than yours.
Since these commands, in XXE, are keyboard shortcurts, and since I am,
by accident, a Mac user, I have different expectations: In the the MacOS
Finder you can copy and paste files, via the normal shortcuts for that
(same as copy and paste in an editing app). The resulting copy will be a
duplicate, also with regard to metadata such a file creation date.
4. Opened the Web version of Google Drive and located the file I had
pasted.
5. Checked the last change date of the file I had pasted.
* Expected: Old date
* Instead: THe last change date was set to the moment when I pasted
the file.
Unless this is a limitation of Google Drive, then this seems like a
XXE
bug.
*Any* action performed on the Google Drive using XXE seems to modify
the date of the accessed files. For example: opening a document
without even modifying it. The lock added by XXE to the document
changes the date of the file.
This is certainly a problem, but we don't plan to improve this
situation in the near future. Sorry for that.
OK.
The result, for me, is that, in order to do ”serious stuff” with
files, I must use the Google Drive app. That’s OK. Except that I find
the Google Drive app extremely slow at syncing thousands of small files.
(And the kind of document production that is typically performed with
DocBook and DITA tends to cause thousands of small (image) files to be
created.)
And that, in turn, means that I can just as well let XXE interface with
the local Google Drive folder on my harddisk. And thus, since I need
that app, the Google Drive plug in is not all that useful, even for
working with Google Drive.
And that - in turn - means that I have moved some XXE related projects
to Dropbox and the Dropbox app. “Everyone” says that Dropbox is much
faster for smaller files. And, after a few tests, I find that to indeed
be the case ...
Leif Halvard Silli
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