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From: austing@Apple.COM (Glenn L. Austin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: files not getting closed
Message-ID: <44003@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 15 Aug 90 22:09:04 GMT
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emcguire@cadfx.ccad.uiowa.edu (Ed McGuire) writes:
>I've not been able to reproduce the problem, but I did see something
>very suspicious when they showed it to me.  Two editions of the file
>were on a diskette.  Neither was open in Word, but Word was memory
>resident (they use Multifinder).  One could not be thrown away ("locked
>or in use").  The other was supposed to be the newest edition--and the
>modified date reflected that--but, when opened in Word, the text
>displayed was clearly obsolete (or so they told me).  When I Quit from
>Word I was able to throw away the one, and when I reloaded Word and
>opened the other, suddenly the text displayed was current.

Not surprising, since Word doesn't always close its files (it hasn't since
1.05).

>I called Microsoft.  I was advised by the guy I spoke to that he had
>seen similar behavior before under numerous applications.  The scenario
>he described was:  with Multifinder running, close a file that you
>opened in an application.  Then immediately switch to finder.
>Sometimes you get "locked or in use" if you try to throw it away.
>Evidently the desktop is not getting updated immediately.  An
>inconsistency in the desktop might explain why I could get a "deleted"
>obsolete version of a file too.

If you call "FlushVol", the desktop is updated.  Period.

>Can anybody shed more light on this problem, before our secretaries go
>bald?  I'd be more than grateful!

Sure.  Quit Word before copying files edited in Word.  Or switch word
processors... ;-)

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