Thank you for your patient explanations and tireless work. :) On Feb 22, 2013 1:46 AM, "Jaap Karssenberg" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 5:54 AM, Adam Porter <[email protected]> wrote: > > Jaap, > > > > I thought this bug was fixed a long time ago, but maybe I > > misunderstood the fix. I'm using 0.59 and syncing with Dropbox > > between a few computers. The problem is this: > > > > 1. Zim is already running on both systems. > > 2. I change a page on one system. > > 3. I wait for it to sync to the other system. > > 4. I open the Zim window and open the page I just modified on the other > system. > > 5. It seems that if I had already had that page opened in Zim > > earlier, it loads it directly from RAM without checking the copy on > > disk. > > 6. I start editing the page. > > 7. Zim tries to save the changes, and then discovers that the copy on > > disk was changed by Dropbox, so it pops up the dialog. > > > > Shouldn't Zim check the file on disk when I change to that page, and > > read the file from disk if it's changed? Why isn't it noticing the > > change until it tries to save new edits? > > This is an open issue, it is part of this bug report: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/zim/+bug/792058 > > Zim does load a page from disk when you open it in most cases. > However, sometimes there is indeed a cached version that shows up, if > the page object is still used by some other component. To fix this in > a robust way I need to finish refactoring the code base. (Finished > refactoring the parsers, now in the middle of rewriting the editor > widget, page objects are next..) > > A work around is to press <Ctrl>R whenever you suspect a page may have > changed and it will reload from disk. > > Regards, > > Jaap >
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