I imported a MindNode file as an alias. The preview is great, and when I cleck edit in external edit the first time after the alias is imported it works fine. I can edit it, and save it.
But next time I click to open in external editor it opens a new copy of the file with a long, numeric name that indicates the file is locked and I can only work with a duplicate. Even if I close down MindNode and Scrivener and reopen them the same thing happens.
I’ve attached a screen dump of the message i get when I try to edit the file.
Makes it a very slow process. I know I could export to opml but I don’t want to do that.
This sounds like one of the new “features” of OS X 10.7 and .8 which automatically locks a user’s files after a certain period of time, after which you cannot edit the file without this coming up.
What you want to do is Unlock it, however, rather than make a duplicate. The duplicate will not be the aliased copy in Scrivener. I’m not sure what the deal is with the filename. With aliases Scrivener doesn’t have anything to do with the filename. If you import a document it will come up like “24.mindnode”, but if you imported it as an alias then it should just have whatever name it uses on the hard disk. Try Cmd-clicking on the name in the title bar and checking its disposition in Finder.
Could it be a permissions issue? I’ve run into this a couple times – not with Mind Node – and resolved it by correcting permissions on the file in question. [CTR-click > info]
Where is this document stored, by the way? Is it is some kind of archival program? I’m just wondering how the filename got changed to a UUID like that, and if its storage conditions might have something to do with its locked state.
The document is stored in a folder on DropBox with all the other Resources for this project.
I checked the permissions on the file, even changed them to read and write everyone.
I also shut down everything, restarted, run a disk utility repair permissions , shut down, restarted, and the MindNode file still opened locked with a funny name.
So I did it all again, and added another mindnode file and it worked just fine. So I removed all mindnode aliases from the Project, emptied the trash, closed Scrivener and reopened and imported the mindnode alias again and now it appears to be fine. No funny files.
I notice that all the other funny files are still available in recent documents in MindNode, and can be opened as independent files, and I have found that that are stored on a path in documentrevisions, so I can only assume that it was a Lion Versions glitch that just didn’t clear itself up.
That’s a pretty strange glitch, it’s almost like the version system became exposed to the normal file system (versions are typically saved in a “stack” that is invisible to the file system—which is why they won’t copy up to Dropbox, non-Mac computers, or over transmission mechanisms that are not 100% Apple controlled, like FTP or Windows home & office networks). Well, it’s good you caught that and fixed it.
