On Mar 9, 2012, at 14:07 , G S wrote: But it looks like those days are over.
Seriously, you've gone way overboard. I went back over this thread *again* and pulled out everything that could conceivably be used to focus on versioning. Here it all is, *all* of it:
On Mar 7, 2012, at 16:30 , G S wrote: But it occurred to me that this might be some kind of Lion file-management crap gone seriously and dangerously wrong. Has anyone else seen this? Any ideas?
On Mar 8, 2012, at 07:04 , Brian Lambert wrote: I am seeing something like you describe. Xcode occasionally informs me that a file was modified externally and gives me two choices (Revert? Cancel? Can't recall.) Nether seems right and when it happens I say, "WTF!" because it doesn't give me a "Save As" so I don't lose work.
On Mar 8, 2012, at 08:44 , Tito Ciuro wrote:
Just last night I was browsing my document, written in Pages. This is a doc that I've been working on for more than a month. As you may know, Pages has a built-in versioning system. Well, as I was browsing, I realized that a ton of changes were missing. Was I dreaming? Luckily, I had saved the document as PDF, which contained all these changes. So I know for a fact that the Pages doc contained them at some point (last Friday for sure.) I have used Spotlight to find any potential duplicate. Nothing. I checked Time Machine. Nothing. The changes were missing. How the heck did that happen? I'm still puzzled.
So now you write about Xcode missing blocks of text. Coincidence? Too early to tell I guess, but I would not point my finger at Xcode. I would speculate that it's a system related issue. If I could only reproduce this...
On Mar 8, 2012, at 15:14 , Joar Wingfors wrote:
Over the last couple of months I've seen one or two other reports of issues that sound like what's being reported here, enough to suggest that it's a real problem but so far also without the kind of information that would make it straight forward to troubleshoot. I'd urge anyone who run into this type of issue to file bug reports with as much information as they can think of. Data loss issues are of course the worst, so we'd love to be able to diagnose this as soon as possible.
On Mar 8, 2012, at 21:44 , G S wrote:
All I reported was that I lost work and suspected Lion's file versioning. It wasn't wild originally, and it's looking less wild the more information we uncover.
This is the dialog presented in Xcode:
It "occurred to you" that this might be "Lion file-management crap" gone wrong. Someone else had seen "something like it". A third person reported losing saved changes in Pages and speculated it was "a system related issue". Joar said he'd seen a couple of similar reports (i.e. of Xcode losing text).
The evidence for a versioning bug is "occurred to you" and "speculated".
The text from that screen shot is as follows:
The document "___.mm" could not be saved. The file has been changed by another application.
Click Save Anyway to keep your changes and save the changes made by the other application as a version, or click Revert to keep the changes from the other application and save your changes as a version
As far as this is concerned, you simply saw the word "version" and went a little troppo. The dialog occurred way after the point of the error, and the mention of versioning is Xcode saying it *will* create a new version because it thinks there are changes. There's nothing there to indicate that versioning was the cause of the error. This is the same dialog you'd get if a different app really did change the text file while you were editing it in Xcode.
Anyway, I've had my say, perhaps once too often, so I'm out of this thread now.
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