[ale] NetScape Bookmarks Updating?

[Bob's ALE Mail]

> From: "Denny Chambers" <chambersd at gw.total-web.net>
> To: "David C. Hicks" <dhicks at machturtle.com>, "ale" <ale at ale.org>
> Subject: RE: [ale] NetScape Bookmarks Updating?
> Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 21:40:34 -0500

> I am running Netscape 4.76 under Redhat 6.2 and I have just started to have
> the same problem. I can figure out why. I saw it today while I was using
> StarOffice 5.2, not that StarOffice has anything to do with it.

I believe that Netscrape does this when the bookmarks file's times change.
If I recall correctly, it checks access time rather than modification time
(which would be a bug).  Thus, most "find" commands and other programs that
read files would trigger this.

Bob

> Denny Chambers
> Linux Java Engineer
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 9:59 AM
> > To: ale
> > Subject: [ale] NetScape Bookmarks Updating?
> >
> > I'm running NetScape 4.73 under Debian Linux 2.2.  Lately, NetScape
> > keeps popping up an error box indicating that bookmarks have changed and
> > are being reloaded.  Has anyone ever encountered this, and if so could
> > you fix it and how?
> >
> > Thanks!
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> > David C. Hicks
> > Mach Turtle Technologies,  Inc. (www.machturtle.com)
> > dhicks at machturtle.com
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