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Subject:    Re: [Quanta] possibly dangerous quanta problem?
From:       Andras Mantia <amantia () kde ! org>
Date:       2006-09-08 7:19:11
Message-ID: 200609081019.11451.amantia () kde ! org
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On Friday 08 September 2006 05:42, chris feldmann wrote:
> Hi list,
> Using version 3.5.3, I edited several files (over fish) on a site and
> then, over the next several days, edited them using other means from
> other places, vim, textmate, etc. When I reopened the files in
> quanta, that is merely opened them, quanta appears to have swapped
> it's last backup versions of the files with the files themseves. The
> site reverted to the state it was in a week ago.

Quanta should not do that. When it restores from backup it *always* asks 
for confirmation.

> The files I had opened over fish were the current version, open in
> the editor even as I looked at the site in a browser reflecting its
> state several days ago. When I tried to "Save As..." one of the
> files, it appeared to save itself and then reverted to the older
> version before popping up the location dialog.
>
> Now this is just my first explanation of what happened and I don't
> have time to recreate it (I have to restore a bunch of backups and
> recreate a few hour's work - and quick), but if this is a bug, it's a
> very dangerous one. So a heads up until I can confirm, which will be
> after the weekend.

I doubt it is a Quanta bug. It might be a bug in fish kioslave, so 
unless you do further testing with Quanta using fish and Kate using 
fish it's hard to do anything.

Andras
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