Re: RDi not saving changes back to system

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've run into this once in a while - not sure exactly what tells me I 
should do something, but it might be that there's no "synchronizing..." 
message - things seem to go too fast for a save.

What I do, usually, is the following sequence -

- Ctrl-A (selects everything)
- Ctrl-C (copies everything to clipboard)
- close the editor
- reopen the source member
- Ctrl-A (selects everything)
- Alt-D (deletes everything - simple delete doesn't always work)
- Ctrl-V (pastes everything from clipboard - the new stuff)
- Ctrl-S (saves back to IBM i)

I know - Yuk! I've just never liked creating a new member that I have to 
clean up, even though, in retrospect, it may be safer.

An alternative I sometimes use, IIRC, is to save the contents of the 
source member to a local text file before closing the editor.

This may probably usually happen when I've had a member editor open in 
RDi over several days, with stopping/starting RDi several times - I think!

Of course, that is likely not to be best practice - we'd never be able 
to do that in SEU, right? So why do I expect it to work elsewhere?

HTH
Vern

On 5/17/2014 4:49 AM, Mike Hockings wrote:
> Try saving your changes to a new member so they are not lost then clear the
> file cache?
>
> Mike
>
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> From:	Jeff Young <jyoung0950@xxxxxxxxx>
> To:	"Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio
>              Client for	System i & iSeries" <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> Date:	2014-05-16 14:23
> Subject:	[WDSCI-L] RDi not saving changes back to system
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>
> RDi 9.0.1
> I have a large source member that I am making changes to.
> After I complete my changes, I save the source member.  It *should* be
> saving the changes back to the original source file/member on the remote
> system, but it does not.
> After the save is complete (the compile option is available when I right
> click on the member, I view the source using SEU on the remote systems, and
> my changes are not there.
> If I close the member in RDi, and re-open it, it does not bring in the
> source from the i, but rather from what appears to be the local copy that
> it saves to prior to pushing the change to the i.
>
>
> This just started happening today.
> I have closed RDi and restarted it, and it downloaded the correct source
> the first time, but after I made changes and saved it, I had the exact same
> problem.
>
> Ideas anyone?
>
> Jeff Young
> Sr. Programmer Analyst
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