[CLOSED] [File watchers] Externally copied file appears twice in watched folder

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Issue by bchintx
Wednesday Jan 15, 2014 at 21:13 GMT
Originally opened as adobe/brackets#6537

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On Win7, if I copy-paste a file into a watched folder, the containing folder expands automatically to show two entries for the new file. Deleting the file from disk leaves an orphaned entry in the project list.

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Follow steps 1 thru 6 of the Brackets Smoke Tests

Observed:
At step 6, the 'watcher' folder does automatically expand as soon as the README.md file is added to the 'watcher' folder via File Explorer. The expanded watcher folder contains two entries for README.md.

Continued Steps to Reproduce:
2. Delete the copied file README.md from the watcher folder using File Explorer. Notice that only one entry is deleted from the project tree in Brackets.
3. Click on that one entry, and Brackets displays the "Error opening file" message box.

The orphaned entry doesn't go away until you restart Brackets.

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Comment by jasonsanjose
Wednesday Jan 15, 2014 at 22:15 GMT

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Reproduced, but only on windows with build 0.36.0-11405.

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Comment by jasonsanjose
Wednesday Jan 15, 2014 at 22:26 GMT

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Well this is a little unsettling... cc@iwehrman. I followed the smokes steps and boiled it down to this:

1. Create new folder (which defaults to "New Folder")
2. Rename to watch
3. Rename to watchers
4. Paste in README.md

After that, I get this error below

Unable to stat changed path:  C:/Users/jasonsj/GitHub/brackets/samples/root/Getting Started/New folder/README.md NotFound

That tells me that something at the file system got really messed up. The original path New folder is still around when it should be watchers.

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Comment by jasonsanjose
Wednesday Jan 15, 2014 at 22:38 GMT

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Immediately after pasting README.md here are the list of _pendingChanges:

["C:/Users/jasonsj/GitHub/brackets/samples/root/Getting Started/New folder/",
"C:/Users/jasonsj/GitHub/brackets/samples/root/Getting Started/watch/",
"C:/Users/jasonsj/GitHub/brackets/samples/root/Getting Started/watchers/",
"C:/Users/jasonsj/GitHub/brackets/samples/root/Getting Started/watchers",
"C:/Users/jasonsj/GitHub/brackets/samples/root/Getting Started/New folder/README.md",
"C:/Users/jasonsj/GitHub/brackets/samples/root/Getting Started/watch/README.md",
"C:/Users/jasonsj/GitHub/brackets/samples/root/Getting Started/watchers/README.md"]

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Comment by peterflynn
Saturday Jan 18, 2014 at 00:12 GMT

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FBNC@bchintx

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Comment by ingorichter
Monday Jan 27, 2014 at 07:31 GMT

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@peterflynn@jasonsanjose the original issue seems to be resolved. The only thing that concerns me at this point, is the fact that things get messy once you start renaming the created folder and copy/move/delete files from/into this folder. I assume you already have an issue filed for it, right?