Save broken

[Cuperino]

Issue reported by Elimar Beck via Telegram.

Today I was working with QPrompt 2.0 beta 3... and a saving problem occurred... I was working with a file that kept being saved until a certain time, as the file had several changes I renamed it generating a second file. I made some more changes during the saving and in the end I always send a copy of the "saved" file to the client, however this file did not save the last changes. for the record, before closing the file I used CTRL+s a few times, but I didn't notice that the "saved" message did not appear in the footer.

What could have happened? The shortcut doesn't work? Well, I'll keep an eye on it... (I remember that with every change I always use the ctrl+s shortcut) but this time the changes weren't saved.

To which videosmith replied:

Stuart Scoon, [nov 18, 2024, 5:51:40 p.m.]:
I've noticed when saving a revised version of a file, the save requestor occasionally reverts back to an earlier version unless you explicitly type/select the version you want to save in the dialog before the action.

As for ctrl-s, that has always saved the current version for me (qprompt 1.2 r6)

Then Elimar wrote:

to control the file version I created a version with a different name using "save as".... and the file remained open until the end of the work... I still made some changes and used ctrl+s, but after I created the new file even using ctrl+s the file remained with the first save time, when I used the save as option.
I didn't lose any information because I had created a copy in Word... but I was wondering why this happened

[Cuperino]

This sounds as if the state of saving in QPrompt was incongruent with reality. I'm not sure how this could've happened, but renaming the file clearly had to do with this. You have uncovered an edge case that needs further inspection. This is probably related to the auto-reload feature, which is meant to detect external updates to the current file and trigger a re-load when that happens.

As for Ctrl+S not working, if QPrompt's state indicates the file has already been saved and there haven't been any new changes, saving is disabled until new changes are made. This is done intentionally to preserve the lifespan of the media you're saving to.