file name or dir changed from the desktop

[Eric Chatonet]

Hi Scott,

That's a bad user behaviour (probably rare) but...
I don't know (may be others will) how to get the information from the  
desktop manager but when an user saves, you could check first if the  
file does exists and act accordingly.

Le 30 juin 05 à 12:13, Scott Morrow a écrit :

>     I'm wondering if there is an established procedure for dealing  
> with this situation.
>
> 1.) the user opens a stack file
> 2.) the user leaves the app (with the file still open), goes to the  
> desktop and manually changes the file name (or directory)
> 3.) the user returns to the app and saves the file
>
> For me, this results in a new file with the original name  being  
> created since I haven't discovered a way to learn what the new file  
> name (or directory) is.
>
> Although changing the file name of an open file seems like a bad  
> idea, I'm sure one of my users will do it and then get confused  
> when their  newly named file doesn't contain the most recent  
> changes.   I noticed that Appleworks 6 (OSX) doesn't have a problem  
> with the file name being changed.

Best Regards from Paris,

Eric Chatonet.
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