#1601 Can't save or close in dropbox in windows.
Hello,
I am getting a (generic) taskcoach error when I close or sometimes when I save my data. The data file is in dropbox. A subfolder of my dropbox folder has been virtualized with subst to show up as a "T:" drive in windows (so that paths stay consistent on all computers), although I doubt that the subst is making a difference. My OS is Win 8.1. Taskcoach 1.4.2.
The log file reads one of these two errors:
============= Thu Sep 10 17:15:01 2015
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "taskcoachlib\gui\mainwindow.pyo", line 289, in onClose
File "taskcoachlib\application\application.pyo", line 373, in quitApplication
File "taskcoachlib\gui\iocontroller.pyo", line 295, in close
File "taskcoachlib\gui\iocontroller.pyo", line 476, in __closeUnconditionally
File "taskcoachlib\persistence\taskfile.pyo", line 651, in close
File "taskcoachlib\persistence\taskfile.pyo", line 634, in release_lock
File "taskcoachlib\thirdparty\lockfile.pyo", line 357, in release
WindowsError: [Error 32] The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process: u'T:\Program Files\TaskCoach\TaskCoach Data\Blake.tsk.lock'
============= Mon Sep 21 13:54:20 2015
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "taskcoachlib\persistence\autosaver.pyo", line 60, in on_idle
File "taskcoachlib\persistence\taskfile.pyo", line 669, in save
File "taskcoachlib\persistence\taskfile.pyo", line 452, in save
File "taskcoachlib\persistence\taskfile.pyo", line 678, in mergeDiskChanges
File "taskcoachlib\persistence\taskfile.pyo", line 634, in release_lock
File "taskcoachlib\thirdparty\lockfile.pyo", line 357, in release
WindowsError: [Error 145] The directory is not empty: u'T:\Program Files\TaskCoach\TaskCoach Data\Blake.tsk.lock'
Thank you,
DanR
Hi, sorry nobody replied to this ticket originally…
But 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