On 4/13/19 11:59 AM, Dr Paul Verschueren wrote:
Dear all –
Using LyX Version 2.3.2-1 (14 December 2018) under Win10, I am
experiencing the problem described below with seemingly greater
regularity.
I’m guessing the atomicity of the Lyx save/rename operation is being
broken by a locking operation by Dropbox.
Does anyone know more?
The problem is intermittent and takes the form of a write failure on
saving:
imap://parubin73%40gmail%2e...@imap.googlemail.com:993/fetch%3EUID%3E/LyX%20users%3E3955?header=quotebody&part=1.2&filename=image001.png
When I press OK, I get:
imap://parubin73%40gmail%2e...@imap.googlemail.com:993/fetch%3EUID%3E/LyX%20users%3E3955?header=quotebody&part=1.3&filename=image002.png
On pressing Retry, the document is saved.
Since it takes only a couple of clicks to complete the save operation,
I have been living with this for a while, but it is getting irritating
especially as the frequency appears to be increasing. Any suggestions
(other than don’t use Dropbox!) gratefully received.
Paul
This is a known issue, and it seems to be due to a combination of how
Dropbox syncs files (locking the file during sync) and how Windows
handles files. There's a ticket for it (#10091)
<https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/10091> with a lengthy commentary. I
routinely edit .lyx files on Dropbox with no problem (on Linux Mint), so
it's apparently not just a Dropbox sync issue.
Currently there seems to be no fix. If you're going to be editing a file
on Dropbox and doing frequent saves along the way, it might be worth
pausing synchronization by Dropbox during the edit and then resuming
sync after the final save. On Mint, I can pause/resume sync by
right-clicking the Dropbox icon in the system tray and clicking a menu
item; hopefully it's comparably easy on Windows.
Paul
