[LAU] [Rosegarden-user] RG 17.04 seems to leave lock files behind

[david]

On 01/10/2018 09:17 PM, david wrote:
> On 01/10/2018 07:59 AM, Will Godfrey wrote:
>> On Wed, 10 Jan 2018 08:40:55 -0500
>> Ted Felix <ted at tedfelix.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 01/10/2018 02:46 AM, david wrote:
>>>> Was completely unable to duplicate the problem.
>>>>
>>>> Must have been the phases of the moon or something. Thanks for 
>>>> fixing it
>>>> quantum-mechanics-style simply by turning your attention toward it! :)
>>>
>>>    Ha!  Computers are afraid of me.
>>>
>>>    Lock file problems tend to happen when rg crashes.  My best guess is
>>> that it was crashing when it was going down and now it isn't.
>>>
>>> Ted.
>>>
>>
>> Another way that's caught me (rather more often than I'd like to 
>> admit) is
>> shutting down the desktop, without first shutting down Rosegarden.
> 
> Didn't do that!
> 
>> Wasn't there some discussion on adding some kind of time stamp to the 
>> lock
>> file, so that it will ignore one that was (say) over 24 hour old.
> 
> I don't remember if there was a timestamp in the orphaned lockfile, but 
> it clearly wouldn't have been over 24 hours old.

A thought occurred to me: When RG opens a project and finds a lockfile, 
maybe have the dialog box that informs the user a lockfile exists give 
them a warning about possible consequences with an option to delete the 
lockfile?

Then if something gets messed up because 2 different RG sessions have 
the same project open, it's because the user chose to do it.

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