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From: fozzard@alumni.colorado.edu (Richard Fozzard)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Windows loses track of files! What gives?
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Date: 11 Apr 91 17:24:06 GMT
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I've always been sort of annoyed that win3 doesn't update information in
open file mgr windows, such as new or modified files. I admit to having
been spoiled by high expectations coming from years of Mac use.

But now that I am doing some development, it's getting intolerable and
insidious. When I have files of the same name in different directories,
sometimes win3 will confuse them, so that when I double click one, the
application actually opens the other. And when I copy a file between
windows, it sometimes grabs the deleted version of a file, not the new
one.

This is really poor. Win3 must be keeping pointers to physical disk 
locations for files in a window. That's really inexcusable in a multi-
windowing, multi-tasking environment! While this may give some minor
performance improvements, it make serious development a big hassle, full
of time-wasting confirmations that I am really dealing with the file
I think I am.

Have others noticed these sorts of problems? And is there a fix for them?

rich

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