Re: How to prevent Gnumeric from overwriting the same file by different gnumeric instances
Dave Jennings <[email protected]>
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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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> gnumeric-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list >> > _______________________________________________ > gnumeric-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list >