Re: How to prevent Gnumeric from overwriting the same file by different gnumeric instances

[Dave Jennings <mail davidjennings net>]

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 <yury dubinsky gmail com> 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
> >
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