Bug 225586

Summary:	Automatic refresh doesn't work on Windows when file stored on mounted (non-Windows) driver updated
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	James Wilson <jcw>
Component:	Resources	Assignee:	Platform-Resources-Inbox <platform-resources-inbox>
Status:	ASSIGNED ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	minor
Priority:	P3	CC:	emoffatt, Szymon.Brandys
Version:	3.4
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows Server 2003
Whiteboard:

Description James Wilson

2008-04-03 11:39:04 EDT

Build ID: I20080330-1350

Steps To Reproduce:
1. Set auto-refresh (Window->Preferences->Workspace->"Refresh Automatically")
2. Save a file on a network drive (I expect it's only on non-Windows drives - mine's on a Solaris box)
3. Close file
4. Alter file timestamp (e.g. use touch from a command prompt)
5. Open file in Eclipse
Eclipse (both 3.3 and 3.4M6 says the resource is out-of-sync  and needs to be refreshed).


More information:
3.1.2 worked as I would expect it to.
I've synchronized the times on the machines in question.
Eclipse has been losing and re-gaining the focus before the file was opened (someone on the newsgroups thought that was when the auto-refresh was run).

I know it's not a show-stopper, but it is annoying and seems to my naive eyes like it shouldn't be too hard to make it work!

Comment 1 Szymon Brandys

2008-04-28 09:54:16 EDT

We can have two scenarios here. It is not clear which one we have here.

1) We have a regular project in the workspace and we create a linked resource (in the project) to a file on a network drive.

2) We create a project in a non-default location on a network drive. Then we create a regular file in the project.

I used Mac to verify the issue. 

The case 1 is fine. The file is refreshed, however sometimes it takes some time, so you can see the "out-of-sync" message if you are too fast.

The case 2 doesn't work using Mac.

Could you confirm that on Linux case 1 works and case 2 doesn't?

Comment 2 James Wilson

2008-04-28 10:00:28 EDT

I can confirm that on Solaris case 2 doesn't work.  I'm afraid my desktop machine is a Windows one, so I can't check case 1 here.

Comment 3 Eclipse Webmaster

2019-09-06 15:35:23 EDT

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