[TxMt] Re: Weird file not updating problem

[Allan Odgaard]

On 20 Aug 2016, at 8:57, Jack Royal-Gordon wrote:

> I made some changes to a file that was open as part of a Rails project 
> (the whole project was opened) and saved the changes. TextMate showed 
> the file as having no unsaved changes. However, inspecting the file 
> outside of TextMate, I could see that the the changes were not saved.

And even pressing ⌘S did not change that? ⌘S will always save, even 
if it shows “no changes”.

Also, when you have a file open, you can use Bundles → Diff → 
Document With Saved Copy. This will run a diff util on the buffer and 
the file on disk, that should be able to confirm if somehow TM’s 
buffer is different with the file on disk after ⌘S.

> I rebooted my computer and when TextMate reopened, there was the file 
> with my changes showing (but which were not saved although again it 
> showed as having no unsaved changes). I had to close the file, reopen 
> it, and re-apply the changes before saving again in order to actually 
> save the changes

So you rebooted, re-opened the file, and while TM found your (unsaved) 
changes, it would still not save on ⌘S. But closing file (again) and 
re-opening now did show the file on disk, and you could save?

> […] I wanted to see if this was a known issue with 2.0-beta.12.

Nothing I have heard of before, but from the description above, it 
really sounds like TextMate was operating on a different file than what 
you was inspect on disk, that would explain all of the behavior 
perfectly, including rebooting and showing the updated file “with no 
changes”, yet after closing it and opening the (right) file, you now 
lost the changes, and had to re-do them.

So what should probably be looked into is, how did it get to operate on 
this other file, and where on disk was it?

Did anything work on the files on disk (TextMate will track renames, 
hence if you open /path/to/file and then move it to 
/path/to/other/place, it will update its reference).

Should it ever happen again, you can right-click the proxy icon to see 
where the file is on dis, or use File Browser → Reveal Document.