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I've been seeing same issue.

mmc — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:16:08 +0100

I've been seeing same issue. It appears random when or why it happens and it is not always happenieng with all files that are open. For example, yesterday I was working on 8 files and had no problems all day. I had exactly the same files open today and the first time I tried to save one it took forever. I tried saving a different file and it saved fine. Tried a third, hang... back to the first, and again, hang...

I can't see a file comparison being the reason for this as I just today I tried saving a one line file and had the same problem. I ruled out network congestion a while back - it happens saving locally to my PC, over the network and via FTP to remote locations. I have tested this multiple times and always have been able to quickly traverse the directory tree and refresh the folder before the save would be completed. It I have not been able to test it fully but it appears that once one file takes a long time to save, all files within that same directory take a long time. comparing directory settings, security and permissions I can't see any difference between any in the project I'm in.

Sometimes closing and restarting Komodo fixes the issue but not always.

As a side note: I am using live import for the project but I have also had the problem with no projects open.

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Loren

Re: saving files

ToddW — Fri, 02 May 2008 16:02:06 +0100

Komodo does not use any asynchronous methods for saving files, it is completely synchronous. I don't believe there were any major changes made to Komodo's file save handling between Komodo 4.2 and Komodo 4.3. Could this be related to changes made in Webdrive or network congestion?

Note that for local files, before saving Komodo will always re-read in the file's contents to compare with what it started with, so that it can ensure the file has not changed outside of Komodo whilst you were editing (Note: this has always happened in Komodo since Komodo 3.x).

Cheers,
Todd

asynchronous saving

carloss — Fri, 02 May 2008 10:49:07 +0100

Since I upgraded Komodo from 4.2 to 4.3.x branch, I noticed that it saves files asynchronously with some delay (when I press CTRL+S, it takes up to about 40 secs to save the file for real in the background).
This is a bit annoying for me, because I use Komodo together with Webdrive, which works asynchronously with files itself, and adds few more seconds to the delay.

So I wanted to ask, if is it possible to disable this feature somehow, and make file saving synchronous again (so it will save my file right after I press the CTRL+S). Or at least to limit the delay to some low value.

Thanks in advance for any tip how to do it.