[tech] Weird napoli locking(?) issue

Daniel Axtens danielax at gmail.com
Fri Oct 15 00:50:00 WST 2010


I should clarify that I'm saving to a subdirectory of my home
directory, which is network mounted.
-- d

On 14 October 2010 11:29, Daniel Axtens <danielax at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm having issues with re-saving files on napoli - an initial save
> will succeed, but any subsequent attempts to modify the file fail.
>
> Steps to reproduce:
>  - Open a file, say report.tex with TeXShop (the problem also occurs
> with OpenOffice)
>  - make a change to the file and save it. The save should succeed.
>  - make another change to the file and attempt to save it. The save
> will fail with a totally uninformative information message.
>
> Other information:
>  - ls -la@ report.tex:
>
> -rw-r--r--@ 1 dja  wheel  4340 14 Oct 11:18 report.tex
>        com.apple.FinderInfo      32
>
> I don't really know how to pull out the contents of FinderInfo.
>
> I suspect it's something to do with the network, but IANA mac expert.
>
> -- d
>


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