Re: Message compose temp file disappearing

On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 23:28:09 +0200 (Romance Daylight Time)
Vadim Zeitlin <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 09:45:40 -0700 (Pacific Standard Time)
Brendan Barnwell <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> BB> 	The problem is that sometimes, when I'm editing a message
in
> BB> the external editor and I go to save the file, the "Save As"
button will
> BB> pop up -- the editor doesn't know where the temp file is.  I can
look
> BB> and see where the file originally was (in /Documents and
> BB> Settings/BrenBarn/Local Data/Temp), but if I navigate to that
directory,
> BB> the file isn't there.  I don't see how the text editor could be
deleting
> BB> the file it's currently using, so it seems that somehow
Mahogany is
> BB> pulling the rug out from under it.  Has anyone else experienced
this
> BB> behavior.  (It doesn't happen with every message, just at
random.)
>
>  I've never seen this and all I can say is that M deletes the file when
the
> editor process terminates. When this happens it also gives a message
in the
> status bar of the composer ("External editor terminated..."), do you
see
> it?

	Hmmm, yes, it just happened and I saw that message -- but the
editor was still running.  I'll see if I can see any more pattern to what's
causing it to think the editor has closed.

> BB> Whenever I have a slow or unreliable connection to my
> BB> mailserver, Mahogany freezes and/or crashes.  This seems like
really
> BB> bad behavior from a program.
>
>  Definitely -- and this shouldn't happen independently of whether it
is MT
> or not. Did you obtain any crush dumps from it?

	No, I have logging on but there never seems to be anything
useful in the log file after the crash.  Sometimes it hangs and then
resumes after a while.  The disturbing thing is the GUI degradation
that I mentioned: the menu bar often disappears, or some dialog that
was floating there will disappear, and sometimes if I task-switch away I
won't be able to task-switch back.

--
--Brendan Barnwell
"Do not follow where the path may lead.  Go, instead, where there is
no path, and leave a trail."
	--author unknown



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