Unable to disable autosave in collaborative mode #14619
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In collaborative mode it is not possible to disable auto-save. |
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ohw, i thought it was available as a toggle.... so, as it currently stands, there's no way to:
right? ( this is behaviour in other editors. ) if yes, then any near future plans for that? |
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I don't know if it makes sense to not auto-save in collaboration mode. A user might not want to save, but they cannot prevent other users to do so anyway. |
Yes but the extension may be installed in the current environment but not always be in used. So it makes sense to be able to turn off auto-save in collaboration mode; Microsoft office as a obvious toggle to do that for example: |
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To summarize, there are two issues here:
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one more reference of the implementation of the intended behaviour:
- https://www.geany.org/manual/current/#various-preferences:~:text=reload_clean_doc_on_file_change |
I think it is fair to allow users to disable auto-save and only save manually. Yes, there are caveats such that another user can save when in collaborative mode, but I think this is fine as long as it is documented and UI can display that the file was saved by someone else. I think the pattern is to enforce autosave in cloud-synced documents, not in collaborative documents; yes most collaborative documents are cloud-synced nowadays, but in cases where they are not, the user still has to deal with their file system limitations and auto-save can lead to inadvertent side-effects, for example if users have file system watch scripts, such as performing expensive anti-virus scans on each modification (which is sometimes enforced and user has no way to disable it). Technically, I think we only want to:
We may also want to:
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continued from #14516
Description
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The changes i am making are getting automatically saved always in jupyter lab 4 (all the --pre, 4.0, and 4.0.1)
despite having the option of "Autosave Documents < Settings" in jupyter lab turned off (shown as blank in the gutter)
vivaldi_Qz1RcIK5Nl.mp4
Reproduce
the unsaved indicating disc disappears (i.e. changes are saved to file) to be replaced by closing x
Expected behavior
file should not be autosaved
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