Thanks Milian for taking the time to respond to my email. I think you are right that the problem is probably a microsoft one. I do not have a problem with the .part files when editing directly on a Linux server. It is difficult to set up a full web server environment on a lone microsoft pc so that is why I often work directly on the files on our microsoft servers.
Regards Tim Jenkin On 16 April 2015 at 14:49, Milian Wolff <m...@milianw.de> wrote: > On Saturday 11 April 2015 20:04:22 Tim Jenkin wrote: > > Dear Kate developers, > > Hello Tim! > > > Kate is my favourite text editor but I have an issue with it that often > > leave me with the feeling that it is my least favourite text editor! > > > > This is when I am editing files directly on the server. I know this is > > not a good practice, but often a file needs to be tweaked quickly so > > there is no better way than to do it directly with Kate. > > > > My issue is that Kate randomly creates .part files when saving on the > > server. When such a file is created then the file can't be saved back on > > the server until the .part file is deleted. > > This is afaik not random at all, but part of a very common technique to > ensure > web uploads do not corrupt the original file. Imagine you safe and lose the > network connection in the middle of that process. If the original would be > written to directly, it would now be corrupted -> bad! Also, this process > would not be atomic. So instead a temporary .part file is created and > written > to and eventually moved (atomically, afaik) to the original location. > > > Needless to say this is VERY irritating. I can't see any reason for > > these .part files. When they are deleted the sky does not fall in and > > everything continues fine. There seems to be no pattern to these .part > > files being created. Sometimes they are created and sometimes they are > > not, but when they prevent me from saving it is very annoying. > > > > What can be done about this? Is there any way of switching off the .part > > files or preventing their creation? What can I do to avoid them? > > I would say even if it would be configurable (I doubt it), then you should > really not switch it off. Rather, I wonder why .part files are left lying > around. And that they cannot be overwritten is probably due to the dumb > windows "feature" of "file still open" or the like. Anyhow, David Faure > might > know more about this or what might be going on. > > > I have recently taken to working directly on the server with remote > > desktop to prevent these annoying .part files, but the server being > > Windows obviously does not have Kate on it. > > In general, this is not Kate/Kwrite specific, but rather something that is > KIO > specific and thus applies to all KDE applications. Please direct future > questions to kde-devel@kde.org > > Thanks. > -- > Milian Wolff > m...@milianw.de > http://milianw.de >
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