#1670 Creating lock directory failed during application start

[Carsten Grohmann]

Hi Task Coach Developer,

Task Coach is failing to create the lock directory Z:\Carsten.tsk.lock\MyWinLaptop.-32c412636.

Z:\ is my personal CIFS share. I've full access to this share and create and delete all files - also within Carsten.tsk.lock.

The issue is reproducible even after I've deleted the top level directory Z:\Carsten.tsk.lock.

That's what I found in the log file:

    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "taskcoachlib\gui\iocontroller.pyo", line 125, in open
      File "taskcoachlib\persistence\taskfile.pyo", line 660, in load
      File "taskcoachlib\persistence\taskfile.pyo", line 639, in acquire_lock
      File "taskcoachlib\thirdparty\lockfile\mkdirlockfile.pyo", line 62, in acquire
    IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: u'Z:\\Carsten.tsk.lock\\MyWinLaptop.-32c412636'

Installed Version:

• Task Coach Version 1.4.3, January 31, 2016, installed as a portable application
• Windows 7 Enterprise SP1

Please solve this issue and provide a new official release.

Thank you,
Carsten

[Aaron Wolf]

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