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Bug 174146 - [Preferences] Add link to preferences page for 'The file has changed on the system' dialog
Summary: [Preferences] Add link to preferences page for 'The file has changed on the s...
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 168695
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version: 3.3   Edit
Hardware: All All
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Duong Nguyen CLA
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Reported: 2007-02-14 06:30 EST by Alex Blewitt CLA
Modified: 2007-02-16 04:30 EST (History)
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Description Alex Blewitt CLA 2007-02-14 06:30:23 EST 
When a file is modified outside of Eclipse, and you go into an editor, you're prompted with a dialog box that says "The file has been modified outside of Eclipse. Do you want to reload the data?". There's a preference option (Preferences -> General -> Workspace -> Refresh automatically) that can make this the default behaviour.

It would be good (and, one imagines, relatively trivial) to have a link from the dialog to the preferences page and/or a checkbox which says 'Do this automatically from now on' for those that don't know about the option.
Comment 1 Boris Bokowski CLA 2007-02-14 13:51:08 EST 
Sounds like a good idea.  Benny?
Comment 2 Alex Blewitt CLA 2007-02-14 17:39:03 EST 
Actually, I tried setting this property and then went back into the editor, and it still showed the message dialog. Does this preference actually disable this warning message, or not?
Comment 3 Tod Creasey CLA 2007-02-15 08:15:13 EST 
Dani does this option still work?
Comment 4 Dani Megert CLA 2007-02-15 09:33:58 EST 
This is totally unrelated. The option is for the workspace and means that it checks the FS periodically and if it detects changes it fires resource deltas.
Comment 5 Alex Blewitt CLA 2007-02-15 21:08:04 EST 
In that case, feel free to close this as INVALID. Mind you an option to automatically re-load the editor's contents if the file has changed (or 'automatically do this from now onwards' in the dialog box) might be worth doing.
Comment 6 Dani Megert CLA 2007-02-16 02:26:45 EST 
I think what you are looking for is bug 168695.
Comment 7 Alex Blewitt CLA 2007-02-16 04:30:04 EST 
Yeah, looks like that is the one that makes sense. No point having a preference page link to something that isn't related :-)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 168695 ***