Re: How to prevent Gnumeric from overwriting the same file by different gnumeric instances

Dave Jennings <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.apps.gnumeric
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Is there a reason that the patch attached to that bug wasn't applied?

Dave.

On 23/03/18 09:10, Morten Welinder wrote:
> There currently isn't although there was some discussion about it a
> long while ago,
> see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=334024
> 
> I guess at least we ought to check if the file system time stamp has
> changed since we loaded
> the file.  That would catch the vast majority of the problems.
> 
> M.
> 
> 
> On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 5:13 PM, Yury Dubinsky <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hello,
>> When we click on a spreadsheet file, Gnumeric every time opens the file  in
>> a new program instance without any checking if this file was already open.
>> Thus, it is extremely easy to accidentally overwrite the file content.
>> The most of advanced text editors warn users in case when open files are
>> changed on the disk. Office suites, such as LibreOffice, MS Office lock open
>> files.
>> Is there anything similar in Gnumeric?
>> Thanks,
>>   Yury
>>
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