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It is an interesting issue the "external" editing of "internally" stored documents. I'm quite nervous about trusting other peoples database applications to store my files. As much as some of us criticize MS file handling, it does a quite good job these days of looking after our data.
With this nervousness in mind, I have played around with UR's file storage, and I feel it does a really really good job compared to other programs that I have tried. Having said that, I do agree that it shouldn't be too hard for the UR developers to enhance it so that it keeps track of open documents and warns of their presence when closing the program.
Like most people, I have plenty of disk space available these days, and do the following:
- maintain a dedicated UR document storage area using NTFS
- link these documents to info items (all beautifully organized thanks to UR!)
- open a document by highlighting the item and pressing <Ctrl + Shift + J>
- edit and save my document in its external editor
- back in UR, press <Ctrl + F5> to synchronize
As a result, I generally have 2 up-to-date copies of my document.
When they get out of sync, the external document is always the most up to date.
If I close UR before saving and sync'ing - no problem. I save my document, re-open UR, find and select the item then use <Ctrl + F5> or main menu [Item | Synchronize] to get them back in sync.
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