sleek sometimes overwrites the file with some past content instead of accepting external changes

[aisbergde]

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App Version: information not available in the app

Platform: Windows

Installation Method: App Store

Expected Behavior:
If the file content changes outside sleek, changes should be accepted by sleek.

Actual Behavior:
If I edit the file content directly using a text editor, then sometimes sleek overwrites the content with previous content:

Steps to Reproduce:

Hard to reproduce. Most time external changes are accepted by sleek, but sometimes sleek overwrites external changes.

Screenshots:
See above

[ransome1]

My gut tells me this going to be a complicated one, since we have plenty of variables here. Most likely some kind of file sync and at least one external editor or application, of which we don't know how it is writing the file.

The file watching module (chokidar) gives us a couple of settings here. sleek is currently using the default settings which work for the majority of setups. If a setup causes issues, it is my believe that the settings atomic, usePolling and interval as described here can solve this kind of issue. Especially usePolling is a good option in network settings, as stated in the documentation.

In v2.0.12-RC.4 sleek now contains a corresponding setting for each of those 3 chokidar settings. They are described in the wiki.

You might want to start activating the polling by changing fileWatcherPolling to true. And then start playing around with the fileWatcherPollingInterval setting.

Let's see if this changes anything on your side.

[42web-ch]

My gut tells me this going to be a complicated one, since we have plenty of variables here. Most likely some kind of file sync and at least one external editor or application, of which we don't know how it is writing the file.

The file watching module (chokidar) gives us a couple of settings here. sleek is currently using the default settings which work for the majority of setups. If a setup causes issues, it is my believe that the settings atomic, usePolling and interval as described here can solve this kind of issue. Especially usePolling is a good option in network settings, as stated in the documentation.

In v2.0.12-RC.4 sleek now contains a corresponding setting for each of those 3 chokidar settings. They are described in the wiki.

You might want to start activating the polling by changing fileWatcherPolling to true. And then start playing around with the fileWatcherPollingInterval setting.

Let's see if this changes anything on your side.

Thanks for the information. I am added this "Polling" staff to my config. Now im testing..

~/.var/app/com.github.ransome1.sleek/config/sleek/userData/config.json
Can you please add the directory of flatpak config to this wiki page

[ransome1]

Can you please add the directory of flatpak config to this wiki page

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Thanks for the information. I am added this "Polling" staff to my config. Now im testing..

@42web-ch Any update so far?

[42web-ch]

@42web-ch Any update so far?

Yes. For now, i never had again e issue. Thanks for the support. :)