#17803: ShowImage will show an old file after overwriting it if a window stays
open
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Reporter: fatigatti | Owner: leavengood
Type: bug | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: Unscheduled
Component: Applications/ShowImage | Version: R1/Development
Keywords: | Blocked By:
Blocking: | Platform: All
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To reproduce, you need (say) three image files, namely file1.png,
file2.png and file3.png.
1) Open file1.png with ShowImage and leave that window open.
2) Open file2.png, see what's the content, close this window.
3) Delete or rename file2.png and then rename file3.png to file2.png.
4) Double click file2.png in Tracker. ShowImage will show the old file
instead of the current one.
This doesn't happen if no ShowImage window stays open, so it's probably
some kind of caching. Note that file1.png doesn't even need to be in the
same folder (at first I tought it was caching the entire folder contents
so it seemed "logical", if a little strange). As long as there's a
ShowImage process running you can reproduce the bug.
How I run into this? I was trying to export a genealogy tree to png and I
didn't frame it right the first time, so I simply overwrote the file and
for some reason I had a ShowImage already opened. Definitely a common use
case (i.e. you edit an image, don't get it right, overwrite, open to see
the new one).
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Ticket URL: <https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/17803>
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