How to disable textual notification of changed file?

Hi,
I have my SQL files I'm working on in Toad stored (and all other) on network drive in the form \Server\user$\UserName\Documents\... and I don't have impact to change this logic where files are stored (company policy). Before files were locally and I didn't notice this behavior.

Probably because of that Toad incorrectly register changes of this files (because of background sync files) even I just open it and don't do any single change. Sometimes even after less then 10 sec after I open files I got at the end of tab text Deleted (Modified) what is of course incorrect, because I didn't even touch file as seen below:

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This is very annoying. If there would be only * at the end that won't be such problem. But this 2 words occupy a lot of space on each tab and because I have open many tabs suddenly I don't see all my opened tabs anymore. And I don't want to see them in more then 1 line for visual clarity reason. And of course no one else opened or modify this files at that time because this is inside my account storage.
How can I disable this words notification so it won't be displayed anymore?
I'm using Toad Ver 17.1 and Toad Workspaces and for each connection I have opened another instance of Toad, because it's more suit me for clarity and I think work faster. I'm saving my changes using Ctrl+S, so Auto Save actually is not so necessary/important in case of removal this notification will have impact on this.

Regards,
Blacksmith

I don't see any options in Toad's Options Base that controls this. Users out there, correct me if I'm wrong.

Otherwise, there might be a setting in one of the INI files in Toad for Oracle's User Files dir, but I didn't see anything after a quick looksie. Quest Dev team, any suggestions?

Is it possible to download the files (to your local drive) that you want to access/edit, and when you're done, you can save the files back to their network location?
Unless you can disable those background "sync" processes somehow temporarily?

I work most of the time in Toad and all data is on network drive, so I cannot have some data locally and some somewhere else, because of the backup data.
If this isn't possible to disable somehow it would be good idea to add that option, because such scenarios with data on network drive are quite common nowadays.

OK, we'll see what the Quest dev team says, or other users' suggestions.

Hi Blacksmith,

The * at the end is to indicate that the editor contents have changed since the last time the file was saved, so it's conveying different info than (deleted) and/or (modified). When a file is deleted/not available the '*' is also added because with the file missing, there is no saved copy of the editor contents (as far as Toad can tell).

We check to make sure that the file exists as the workspace is being loaded so we can decide where to get the editor contents from (the workspace or the file). If the file cannot be found, then we display (deleted). Modified means that the file contents are newer than editor contents. These checks also happen when you change tabs or move focus away from Toad and then back again.

I think your point is valid about this taking up valuable space. I guess just a (d) or (m) would work, but I don't love that idea because it's not clear. Open to other suggestions. Ideally we could do something here w/o having to add an option.

We should never show both (deleted) and (modified) at the same time. That's a bug and I'll fix.

-John

We are changing this behavior for the next release (I mean 25.1, not 24.2 which is due in about a week) so that editor tabs with deleted/unavailable files will be drawn with a strikeout font, and editor tabs with file contents newer than editor text will be drawn in italics.

A tool tip will explain what's going on if you hover the mouse over one of these tabs.

That behavior will be visual more kind to space on tabs. Strikeout isn't maybe the best choice because then filename will be harder to read.
Please add also option to disable such notification, because it can be misleading that I change something, but actually i didn't at all. Like I mention. This appear even few seconds or immediately after I open file, but not always and or all files. So I didn't change anything, nor files was moved or deleted. Maybe is this related with Workspaces somehow, I don't know. I would like just focus on my work and not guessing what I change or didn't change. I'm saving my changes on demand using Ctrl+S.

Ok, I'll add an option to turn it off in Options -> Editor -> Display.