HomeBank

Links broken and file permissions changed

Asked by Alex MacDonald

Hi Maxime, I've recently started using Homebank, it's really good to find a program that does just what you want!

One small problem: My wife and I have a homebank file for our joint account. To allow both of us to edit it I created a shared folder and put us both in a group that had read and write privileges for the share. I then made links to the .xhb file on our desktops. All seemed to work nicely. We've now noticed that the updates that I've made she can't see and the updates She's made I can't see. The links are broken and we have three versions of the file, 1 on my desktop, 1 on her and the original file in the share. I repaired the links and the same happened again.

I thought this might be a problem with how I'd set up the shared file, so I did an experiment with a text file, updating it from our respective accounts. The links didn't break and the changes were saved to the shared file correctly.

I'm using version 4.0.3 under Ubuntu 9.10.

I've looked through the fixes in 4.1 but can't see anything relating to this issue.

Best regards
Alex

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Maxime DOYEN (mdoyen) said : 		#1

I check the source code, and some glib documentation.

It's maybe caused by the method I use for updating an existing file. I think I create a new file each time (so its inherit the owner and owner group only flag) so your specific settings are lost under linux.

 should test this a little but maybe have a simple solution, to implement into v4.2.

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Alex MacDonald (lmmlmmam) said : 		#2

Maxime

Many thanks for the fix. It is working fine on my system!

Best wishes
Alex

On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 13:55 +0000, Maxime DOYEN wrote:
> Bug #512046 status changed in HomeBank:
>
> Fix Committed => Fix Released
>
> Status change explanation given by Maxime DOYEN:
>
> Fixed for v4.3
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/homebank/+bug/512046
> "Links broken and file permissions changed"
>
> This bug is linked to #98398.
> Links broken and file permissions changed
> https://answers.launchpad.net/homebank/+question/98398
>

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Alex MacDonald (lmmlmmam) said : 		#3

No everything seems to be OK.

Thanks again
Alex

On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 21:24 +0000, Alex MacDonald wrote:
> Your question #98398 on HomeBank changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/homebank/+question/98398
>
> Status: Answered => Open
>
> You are still having a problem:
> Maxime
>
> Many thanks for the fix. It is working fine on my system!
>
> Best wishes
> Alex
>
> On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 13:55 +0000, Maxime DOYEN wrote:
> > Bug #512046 status changed in HomeBank:
> >
> > Fix Committed => Fix Released
> >
> > Status change explanation given by Maxime DOYEN:
> >
> > Fixed for v4.3
> >
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/homebank/+bug/512046
> > "Links broken and file permissions changed"
> >
> > This bug is linked to #98398.
> > Links broken and file permissions changed
> > https://answers.launchpad.net/homebank/+question/98398
> >
>
>
>
>
>
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Maxime DOYEN (mdoyen) said : 		#4

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