On 11/15/06, Alan McDonald <alan@meta.com.au> wrote:
> I have a particular issue with people swapping between detailed view and
> thumbnail view in their file system. It seems that this process deletes
> thumbnails (when switching to details) and if they do not commit these
> deletions before switching back and re-creating the thumbs.db files, there
> is an annoying error in trying to add a file to the repo which already
> exists. My auto update then commit script does not bring the repo version
> othe thumbs.db file back to the working copy because the working copy
> database thinks it's already present, when it's not, but DOES think that the
> newly created thumbs.db file is a new addition instead of an update of an
> existing file. I thought at first it was a case problem but the OS (WinXP)
> always uses teh same case Thumbs.db for the file.
Don't version Thumbs.db in the first place. It's a system-generated
file. Don't even let people check it in (block it with a pre-commit
script) and rewrite your auto-commit script to ignore it as well.
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Received on Wed Nov 15 12:59:24 2006