Files disappearing during save

[Harpsi]

Have you noticed?

While a save is performed (on Windows) the file being saved disappears from the folder, and then appears again. Do you also have this behaviour? Is it normal?

Scary.

[zuill]

Never. However, I use Win 7. Also, sometimes saving issues are related to the tmp file bug. Thus, I have a dedicated folder for the tmp files, and clean them out quite regularly. Doesn't hurt to try that and see what happens.

Zuill

[Harpsi]

Thanks Zuill, that's apparently the one thing I forgot to do when I migrated to a new computer recently. From recommendation from you and others I use to keep the temp folder like that, thanks for reminding me.

Let's see if that does it.

[Harpsi]

It still behaves in exactly the same way.

[motet]

My guess would be that it renames the old file xxx.bakx, then writes the new one, perhaps temporarily using a temp file, so the original name would disappear during this process.