toad 10: a way to loose your work

Toad for Oracle
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I was wrong: Toad overwrites the readonly file, but without warning “Error
Writing to…”

Von: toad@yahoogroups.com [mailto:toad@yahoogroups.com] Im Auftrag von Patrik
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 28. Oktober 2009 17:59
An: ‘toad@yahoogroups.com’
Betreff: [toad] toad 10: a way to loose your work

  1. Open a file and change it in toad. (do not save yet)

  2. Change read-only flag to true (I used my external source control software and
    checked the file in: I know this is silly, but it happened)

  3. Save it in Toad: Toad doesn’t care: It does not save the file but the
    Disk symbol is grayed and you think that Toad has saved your file. But it is not
    saved!

In Toad 9.7.2 you’d get

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Fyi: Toad 10.1 still overwrites readonly files without warning.

I opened a case: 766053

Patrik

Von: toad@yahoogroups.com [mailto:toad@yahoogroups.com] Im Auftrag von
Böschenstein Patrik
Gesendet: Freitag, 30. Oktober 2009 15:01
An: ‘toad@yahoogroups.com’
Betreff: AW: [toad] toad 10: a way to loose your work

I was wrong: Toad overwrites the readonly file, but without warning “Error
Writing to…”

Von: toad@yahoogroups.com [mailto:toad@yahoogroups.com] Im Auftrag von Patrik
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 28. Oktober 2009 17:59
An: ‘toad@yahoogroups.com’
Betreff: [toad] toad 10: a way to loose your work

  1. Open a file and change it in toad. (do not save yet)

  2. Change read-only flag to true (I used my external source control software and
    checked the file in: I know this is silly, but it happened)

  3. Save it in Toad: Toad doesn’t care: It does not save the file but the
    Disk symbol is grayed and you think that Toad has saved your file. But it is not
    saved!

In Toad 9.7.2 you’d get