Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: not create a dot file in same folder as document when opening it for viewing

On Sat, 15 Sep 2012, Mirosław Zalewski wrote:

> On 15/09/2012 at 20:49, Felmon Davis <davisf@union.edu> wrote:
>
> > > I don't know about OP backup tools (did not read whole thread), but rsync
> > > has  --ignore-times and --size-only command-line options which may come
> > > handy in such situation.
> >
> > wouldn't really help her. I was pointing out that it is not enough to 
> > worry about the file's time-stamp; the directory's time-stamp is also 
> > altered.
>
> And these options of rsync are supposed to ignore files and directories whose 
> only change is timestamp. Or, in other words, they change rsync algorithm for 
> finding new files from "if size or timestamp is different, then file has changed" 
> to "if size is different, then file has changed".
>
> If you have directory of size X, and then add file and remove it, then you 
> still have directory of size X. And since rsync compares only size, it will 
> think that directory has not been changed - and skip it.
>
> At least theoretically, because I did not check it.
> And, after all, I don't know if Enda even uses rsync for her backups, so my 
> point may be irrelevant.

you're absolutely right and I was unclear. when I said, 'it wouldn't 
help her', I meant she doesn't want to ignore directories that have 
had changes, she wants to ignore directories that have changed 
specifically because of a lock file.

I'm thinking the best way is, as she proposed originally, stop 
creating lock files in the first place. the first link I came to 
googling suggested a way of doing that.

F.

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Felmon Davis

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end.
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