Devolution Problem

[William Prothero]

Richard:
I just posted a more detailed description of the problem and it appears to affect other plugins too. I think I’ll try taking all of the plugins out of the plugins folder and trying just Devolution.

By the way Hermann said I should erase the livecode cache. I don’t know where that is, unless he was talking about the browser cache.

Best,
Bill

> On Feb 8, 2019, at 2:25 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> William Prothero write:
> 
> > Richard:
> > Hi, I am having a problem getting Devolution to save new projects in
> > the project browser. I enter a new project, it shows up and opens
> > normally, but if I quit Livecode, it doesn’t save the most recent
> > project I entered, although previously entered projects continue to be
> > listed. I haven’t tried to add new projects for awhile, so don’t know
> > if it the last Devo or OS upgrade broke something, or I’m doing
> > something wrong.
> >
> > I am on Mac OS 10.14.2, LC 9.0.2. But, I tried LC 8.2.0 (dp2) and Devo
> > behaves the same way. In the folder “../Plugins/FourthWorld.com/“
> > folder, the 4wDevolutionPrefs.pref <http://fourthworld.com
> > /4wDevolutionPrefs.pref>” file has an empty file "4wDevolutionPrefs~”,
> > so it tried setting up the file, but couldn’t replace the existing
> > file. I changed the permissions of the prefs file to read/write for me
> > and everybody, but still same problem.
> >
> > What should I try next?
> 
> Just to be safe, run the disk scan and permissions repair tools in Apple's Disk Utilities.
> 
> The presence of the "~" shows the devolution plugin is attempting to save its prefs info as expected, but being an empty file suggests something is preventing the write from happening in the middle of the operation.
> 
> It may also be that another plugin is intercepting the save or otherwise interfering with normal operation.  If Disk Utility shows no issues with the storage media or format then you may consider a test run in which you first remove any third-party plugins which may interfere with other stacks' activity.
> 
> Let me know what you find, either here or email or a phone call, whichever is best for you.
> 
> -- 
> Richard Gaskin
> Fourth World Systems
> Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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