Junk Drawer
For all those little papers scattered across your desk
Junk Drawer
For all those little papers scattered across your desk
I stand for the Constitution, for due process, and for community that takes care of each other. Hope is a discipline.
Yes, you read that right: you can’t open (e.g.) Documents/budget.xlsx and
Work/budget.xlsx at the same time.
Yeah, that was my reaction, too. At first, it doesn’t make any sense.
Here’s the best explanation I have, as an educated programmer: the basenames
(that would be the budget.xlsx part—I haven’t tested differing extensions
yet) are probably stored in a duplicate-disallowing structure. Normally, we’d
call that a set. I suspect they’re probably actually keys in a map of filenames
to in-memory buffers of contents or data or some-such. The keys of a map must be
a set, so that would also track.
I wish I could. Stupid closed-source bloatware… I mean, sure, it’s a nice tool for spreadsheets.
Ironically, the fix is probably easy: use absolute paths as the entries in whatever this set is. I cannot fathom a single reason not to do so.
This might not solve the problem if two documents have the same absolute path on two different file-systems (e.g., my hard drive and a network-mounted file-share or some other storage medium), but we could either
Again, what the f@#$.