[TxMt] files in project view

[Cliff Pruitt]

Tony,
I've not worked a whole lot with projects stored on a network drive  
(partially for the reason you describe) but I can tell you that  
locally TextMate does recognize changes, but not always  
"Automatically" the way that, say, the Finder would.  TextMate needs  
to re-scan your project directory before it will show changes.  This  
usually just means switching to another application and back to  
trigger the re-scan (TM scans when the App regains focus).

This is probably being done with your project but it's happening  
slowly.  Th TM documentation states:

"Currently updating is done when TextMate regains focus and can be  
slow for some network mounted disks, in which case you may want to  
settle for only adding individual files to the project [...]"

http://macromates.com/textmate/manual/ 
working_with_multiple_files#auto-updating_projects

I've never liked working with projects over the network.  I find it  
much easier (and faster) to keep a local copy of my project and just  
FTP the changes over.  If you don't want to FTP after every change  
(which honestly has never slowed me down) & you're using Apache/MySQL/ 
PHP anyway, why not just run it locally on your mac & then push out  
the changes when you're satisfied?

- Cliff



On Jul 1, 2007, at 11:34 AM, Tony Crockford wrote:

> if I create an image and save it to a folder that has been opened  
> in the project pane, how do I get TextMate to recognise the new files?
>
> the files are on a shared network folder, could this be part of the  
> problem?
>
> (I'm using TM on a Mac mini, with a WAMP set up for my development  
> on a different box on the LAN)
>
> currently I have to "add existing files"
>
> is there a better way to "refresh" the files and folders in the  
> project that I've missed?
>
> if all the files were on a Mac would TM recognise new files in  
> project folders automatically?
>
> TIA
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