Error on closing TaskCoach

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#1540 Error on closing TaskCoach

Status: closed

Owner: Jérome Laheurte

Labels: None

Operating system: windows

Updated: 2026-01-20

Created: 2014-08-05

Creator: Sebastian Henrich

Private: No

Since my update to version 1.4.0 I'm getting an error when closing TaskCoach. The datafile is stored inside my Dropbox folder. Until now, I never had any Problems with this configuration. If I shut down Dropbox before closing, the error doesn't appear. Here is the error log:

============= Tue Aug 05 21:14:01 2014
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "taskcoachlib\persistence\autosaver.pyo", line 60, in on_idle
  File "taskcoachlib\persistence\taskfile.pyo", line 632, in save
  File "taskcoachlib\persistence\taskfile.pyo", line 604, in acquire_lock
  File "taskcoachlib\thirdparty\lockfile.pyo", line 339, in acquire
taskcoachlib.thirdparty.lockfile.LockTimeout
============= Tue Aug 05 21:20:12 2014
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "taskcoachlib\persistence\autosaver.pyo", line 60, in on_idle
  File "taskcoachlib\persistence\taskfile.pyo", line 632, in save
  File "taskcoachlib\persistence\taskfile.pyo", line 604, in acquire_lock
  File "taskcoachlib\thirdparty\lockfile.pyo", line 339, in acquire
taskcoachlib.thirdparty.lockfile.LockTimeout

Discussion

Jérome Laheurte - 2014-08-24

assigned_to: Jérome Laheurte
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Jérome Laheurte - 2014-09-09

A fix was made and checked into the source code repository of Task Coach. The fix will be part of the next release. You will get another notification when that release is available with the request to install the new release and confirm that your issue has indeed been fixed.

If you like, you can download a recent build from http://www.fraca7.net/TaskCoach-packages/latest_bugfixes.py to test the fix.

Because a fix has been made for this bug report, the priority of this report has been lowered to 1 and its resolution has been set to 'Fixed'.
Thanks, Task Coach development team

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Jérome Laheurte - 2014-09-14

This bug should be fixed in the latest release of Task Coach. Can you please install the latest release of Task Coach and confirm that this bug has indeed been fixed?

Thanks, Task Coach development team

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Sebastian Henrich - 2014-09-14

Sorry for my late reply. I was a Little bit busy the last few days. I tested Version 1.3.99 with the fixes and never had any problems while closing TaskCoach.

I just downloaded and instelled Version 1.4.1. I'll test it during the next days.

Nice Job, thank you very much!

Sebastian

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Holzhauer - 2014-09-15

I have obviously the same problem with owncloud folders. So, could you implement the avoidance of locking for owncloud folders (C:\Users\<username>\ownCloud) as well? Thanks!</username>

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Jérome Laheurte - 2014-09-15

I'll try to find a more foolproof way to find out if it's an Owncloud folder :)

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Jérome Laheurte - 2014-09-21

Done.

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Aaron Wolf - 2026-01-12

status: fixed-and-released --> closed
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Aaron Wolf - 2026-01-12

Hi! Happy to be announcing, all these years later, that Task Coach is now updated to Python3 and development is finally active again, thanks to new volunteers. The project has now moved to https://github.com/taskcoach/taskcoach

I'm using it myself, and things are working better than ever. Packages are available for some common Linux systems and for Windows (note that it isn't recognized by Windows Smartscreen but can be installed by accepting the warning anyway)

We'd love to have you test the updated program, and post any issues that arise there at GitHub

We won't be continuing with SourceForge, just clearing out old issues and letting people know about the move

Cheers

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