Re: [icon-users] File with no changes made often indicates a change has been made
- From: Martin Wuerthner <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: icon-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 11:00:44 +0100
In message <b7a2cfda8ed76b29f7602458b348c009520d51e2@localhost>
Mike Hobbs <mike.hobbs@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In message <5a26df2350.Paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Paul Stewart <paulstewart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I have been working with a few similar EasiWriter files. They
>> contain, text, graphics, lists, chapters, footers, page numbers and
>> hyperlinks.
>> Every now and again when I open the files, the * appears after the
>> filename in the title bar. When I close it, without making any
>> changes, I am prompted to save the file, to which EasiWriter often
>> tells me the file maybe corrupted and saves two copies of the file,
>> the original and a recovered version. I have experienced this on two
>> seperate systems with the same files.
First of all, the message "may be corrupted" means just that - "may"
and this is a very weak "may". In most cases it merely means that some
of the document's internal status information is inconsistent, which
is completely harmless. The only time when this warning is substantial
is if you had a crash or some sort of serious error while editing it
because then the unexpected status information indicates that the app
has not got round to completely updating or formatting the docment. In
all other cases it just points to sloppy code somewhere.
The * typically appears when the document is updated after being
loaded, e.g., if you have a date field in it.
>> Any ideas anyone as to why this is happening?
> [...] it sounds like an auto-saved file that was
> produced as a backup is being automatically reloaded.
I am not aware of EasiWriter automatically loading backup files. As
far as I know when you load a file then exactly that file is loaded
and nothing else.
Regards,
Martin
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