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Re: Corruption of open MS Office files?

From: <kfogel_at_collab.net>
Date: 2005-08-25 00:34:52 CEST

Hmmm. All we can do is keep our eyes open for this bug, and ask
others to do the same. There's not nearly enough information here
to reproduce it (as you probably know).

I do suggest upgrading to 1.2.x, of course.

-Karl

nick vajberg <nickvajberg@yahoo.dk> writes:
> A co-worker has on two occations had his Word document
> corrupted after committing changes while the document
> was open in Word. I could not find any bug reports on
> this. We are using TortoiseSVN to check in stuff, so I
> don't know who's to blame.
>
> I have personally experienced a slightly different
> problem a couple of times, but in the same setting:
> committing an Office file while it was open (I believe
> this was PowerPoint). The problem was that Subversion
> claimed the checksum was wrong (sorry, I don't
> remember the exact wording). My way out was to patch
> the entries file (remove the entry and then update,
> then overwrite with the new version and then commit).
>
> I was using file://, while my co-worker was using
> http:// - not that I think it matters.
>
> So a crude generalization of these incidents is that
> there is something fishy about committing open office
> files :-)
>
> [By the way, we're using SVN 1.0.5. Server is Linux
> and clients are Windows XP SP2]
>
>
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