import on windows is dodgy

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Desktop Grist, packaged with Electron

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import on windows is dodgy #3

Open paulfitz opened 1 year ago

paulfitz commented 1 year ago

On Windows, importing is a bit wonky in a few ways.

Importing through the in-UI button results in a busy or locked error when unlinking a file (the import has actually succeeded at that point, if you reload, but all very confusing).

The File->Open menu doesn't work on windows, in various ways. Maybe best to hide it for now?

Opening a .grist file: image(1)

Opening a .csv file: image(2)

paulfitz commented 1 year ago

Latest version of the app includes some fixes that may help:

Closes a file during import in a way that should make Windows happier.
Tweaked symlinking (but may still not work for all users, Windows permissions around symlinking are complicated).
Restricted File->Open to just .grist files for now since the code for importing is stale.
Fixed importing via in-app button (part of the import code wasn't being packaged).