[Brett Connor]

– System Setup ——————————-
Operating System and version: WinXP Pro SP1
Eclipse version: 3.1M7
Eclipse build id: I20050513-1415
Fresh Eclipse install (y/n): y
Other installed external plugins:
Number of plugins in the <eclipse>/plugins directory that begin with org.eclipse.pde.*: 7
MyEclipse version: 3.8.4+QF2-BetaFor3.1M7
Eclipse JDK version: 1.5.2_02
Are there any exceptions in the Eclipse log file? no
– Message Body ——————————-

I have a TLD editor open with my TLD file. Then I did refactor->rename on a tag handler class, included text references in other files *.tld and the rename seemed fine. However when I went to make some other changes to the TLD and then save I got the error along the lines of

“Unable to save changes. File has changed on file system”.

The file hadn’t changed on the file system, at least not by anything other than eclipse.
Closed and restarted eclipse, everything worked fine.

It is possible that it was not the refactor / rename, but I have been editing the TLD for days, this is the only thing that is different today so I’m suspicious.

[Riyad Kalla]

Brett,
That does sound flaky, any time something like that happens, try refreshing your project and checking your log file for exceptions that will lead us to the culprit. I’m guessing that it was simply an issue of Eclipse and Filesystem getting out of sync even though they really weren’t. No biggies if things look OK in the navigator view.

[Brett Connor]

I tried a refresh, didn’t fix it. There was nothing in the error log either.

@support-rkalla wrote:

I’m guessing that it was simply an issue of Eclipse and Filesystem getting out of sync even though they really weren’t.

I’m not sure what you mean by this? If they really weren’t out of sync, why did the tool refuse to let me save my changes, or refresh?
I got around it by cutting and pasting into notepad to not loose my changes so I lost a little time but no work. I’ll try to reproduce it and let you know.

Brett

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