'Save Document' Icon Behaviour

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Redrover
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'Save Document' Icon Behaviour

Post by Redrover »

Greetings Atlantis Team,

When I use the 'Save Document' icon the icon grays out indicating that the document in focus has been saved. I find this feature useful, unfortunately, it only works on a resident drive. When running Atlantis from a thumb drive the icon does not change when a file is saved.

Is there a reason why it has to be this way? Sure would be nice to have the icon gray out regardless which drive Atlantis is running on.

Best regards
Paul
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Post by admin »

Atlantis never disables (grays out) the "Save document" Image button if the active document is on a removable drive (floppy disk, CD/DVD, memory flash, etc), or this document is a document template. Yes, there are reasons why Atlantis does this. When you open a document from a hard disk, Atlantis locks document file in order to prevent changes to this file by other programs. But files on removable drives should not be locked by programs because a removable drive can be removed (unplugged) at any time. Unplugging a drive with locked files might add instability to the system. So when a document file is not locked, other software could modify and even remove it. Atlantis could not know if the current file content corresponds to the content of the active Atlantis "in-RAM" document.
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Post by Redrover »

Sounds reasonable. Thanks for the explanation.

Paul
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