problem saving to open file that is not open

[Cindy]

Not sure if this is normal behavior for FP 2002 or if I have a problem.

In FP, I open page A.htm, copy some text to clip board and close the page.
I open page B.htm and paste the copied text in replacing text on B.htm.
I then try to save B.htm to A.htm (now closed).
First I receive the message about saving to a file that already has that
name...ok...no problem as I want to overwrite A.htm.

When I click that it is ok to save, I receive the message that A.htm is
still open and cannot save to an open file. -Since I believe A.htm has been
closed at this point, I don't understand why I receive the message about not
being able to save to an open file.

Any thoughts?

Thanks

 

[Mark Fitzpatrick]

Its not necessarily an FP thing as much an OS thing. The OS is throwing an
error stating that it cannot access the file because it is open. When a
program opens a file it receives what is called a handle to that file. When
the program closes the file the handle should then be destroyed as well.
Sometimes though the OS will retain the handle for a while and nothing gets
to write to it since it's stuck open. Something else to check for though is
if the file may have been marked read-only. FP may be interpreting a
read-only error from the OS as a file open. You can check this by opening
Windows Explorer, right-clicking the file in question | select properties
and see if the Read-only box is filled or checked. If it is, uncheck it and
try again.

Hope tihs helps,
Mark Fitzpatrick
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage

 

[Cindy]

Thanks for the response, Mark. It must be the OS. Files are not marked
read only, and got a chance to try the same maneuver on a Windows XP system
with FP 2003 instead of 2002. It gave the same results.

-Kind of a pain...trying to remove text from a particular page layout and
place it in a different page layout. The work around seems to be saving
file under different name, closing FrontPage and re-opening to save it under
the wanted name. At least we know that it is not an unusual problem, but the
OS, as you say. -Thanks

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

Do you have any full-time anti-virus application running that may be protecting the files?

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[Cindy]

That was an interesting thougt...didn't think of it. So...turned off my
Norton AV...but alas, no change, things not saving as described