Thanks for your input Tom. If I'm not mistaken, isn't that what Dropbox does - saves to a local folder then makes a copy to the cloud? With Richard’s input that Dropbox and similar services are notorious for problems in this regard I can only surmise that it’s the trip over the internet that introduces the opportunity for corruption. But maybe I'm wrong on that.
I was just on the phone with a customer who is periodically (once every 2-3 months) having this issue. He’s on a gigabit network and a 1mb file took about 5 seconds to save before the document closed and the tilde version of the file was deleted. That’s seems pretty slow for that size of file. Marty > On Jan 29, 2020, at 9:30 AM, Tom Glod via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > I would change your save routine to save locally first, then copy to > network location. That should prevent those kinds of issues. > > On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 9:14 PM Richard Gaskin via use-livecode < > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > >> Marty Knapp wrote: >> >>> I have an app in which users create documents (stacks) that auto-save >>> when they're closed. I have a a few customers who are getting >>> corrupted stacks every once in a while. At least in a couple of cases >>> they are saving to a network server or over an internet connection. >> ... >>> Does anyone have any input with my shutdown routine? Ways of making it >>> more robust? >> >> Save is save. One command triggers the engine's save routine. Hard to >> get leaner than that. >> >> As a general rule, I would not advise saving large live documents over a >> network, or to any folder managed by network sync (Dropbox, iCloud, >> Nextcloud, etc.). Tons of warnings from software vendors all over the >> web about things like that. >> >> Are the users able to recover from the "~" copy? >> >> -- >> Richard Gaskin >> Fourth World Systems _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
