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Files in "private shared folders" cross-platform anomaly #2868

Open jtsmith0101 opened 7 years ago

jtsmith0101 commented 7 years ago

When editing a shared document from Windows, once edits are complete, the lock file is removed. However, when editing from a mac, there is a ".[filename]" 4kb lockfile remaining. I'm able to manually remove the lockfile without issue to either the mac or windows machines. Another observation, when the file is edited from the mac, both the lockfile and the original file have time stamps indicating when they were last edited. If I edit the document from windows, there is neither a persistent lockfile nor a timestamp of my edits viewable from windows explorer.

Not a problem, but an anomaly....

jtsmith0101 commented 7 years ago

I'm not confident a log would be particularly useful as it's not locking up. Happy to send one if you like.

strib commented 7 years ago

@jtsmith0101 Thanks for the report. Can you tell us what application you're using on Windows and Mac to edit the file? And when you use that same Mac program on another directory (say /tmp/), does it properly clean up the lockfile?

KBFS doesn't create any lockfiles for you, so it must be the application doing it. But maybe something about KBFS prevents the Mac application from cleaning up the file when it's done.