AE 5.4 M150 ties up directory of last file edited

Author

1-Visitor

No, not really as the author may be editing several documents and just wants to check in one. This is a regression from AE 5.2 M130, as we never had the problem before. Beginning to sound like a PTC call.

bibach

1-Visitor

Hi, Dave...

Just a shot in the dark, but maybe the directory is locked because it
is still Editor's "current directory". After closing the document,
try bringing up the "open file" dialog, navigate out of the directory,
but cancel the dialog without selecting a file. This might be enough
to get Editor to release the directory.

-Brandon 🙂

Author

1-Visitor

Nope. Nice idea, though. When I bring up the "open file" dialog, it's pointing to "My Documents" (another beef I have -- even TextPad opens in the current directory). I even tried what you said, but it still clings to the directory.

bibach

1-Visitor

Ok, same procedure, with a twist. After switching to another
directory (even just typing ".." and hitting enter to jump up one
level), but while the dialog is still open, remove the directory, then
cancel the dialog (hitting Esc should do it).

-Brandon 🙂

Author

1-Visitor

Well, that actually worked! Not that I'd want my 100 authors to remember to do that each time they were done with a document. I can pass it along as a workaround. I've opened a call for the overall problem with PTC.

bibach

1-Visitor

Indeed, this is only the most basic workaround and not one you'd want
to incorporate as a regular practice.

However, if a more comprehensive solution is not immediately
forthcoming, you might try something like the following in your
instance.acl or similar location. This checks to see if Editor's
current working directory has the string "test" within the last 6
characters and, if so, moves up one level. You'll want to replace
that check with something suitable to determine if the directory is
one that you don't want Editor to "linger" in.

function leaveDir(doc)
{
local d = pwd();
if (rindex(d, "test") > length(d) - 6) { cd .. }
}
doc_add_callback(current_doc(), 'destroy', 'leaveDir')

-Brandon 🙂

BobSpangenburg

1-Visitor

Dave,

Although this behavior may not be desireable in your scenario, it is a standard behavior within Windows. Any program that opens up a folder will have a tie to that folder behind the scenes within Windows. Windows will not let go of the folder unless you break that tie by either closing the program or telling the program to change its "current folder." The most basic programs (like NotePad or TextPad) behave the same way. I can't count how many times I've been working around my system and think I'm ready to move a folder or file and Windows yells at me saying that it can't do it, only to find out I forgot to close TextPad, even though I've save and closed the file I had open.

I don't believe you'll get a "fix" from PTC as I don't believe this is broken. As our collegues have mentioned, you need to go to another folder and open a document in that folder, or simly close AE. If you look at Help => About Arbortext Editor => Session, you can seen in "Working Directory" the current folder you're locking.

Hope this helps,

Bob