I'm having multiple issues with rc4 and saving, but having trouble pinpointing what is actually happening.
I save as and name a new file.
I make changes to that file and hit save. I also save as a new file.
I quit and relaunch the IDE.
The last file does not appear in the recent files.
I navigate to either file from step 2 and neither one reflects the changes I made in step 2.
I mostly save to google drive so I thought perhaps there was something odd about saving across the network. I repeated the above but saved locally and had the same issue only the name auto populated in save as was from a much older file name from before any of this testing and the location defaulted to the application directory.
Perhaps there is some temp file about file names and locations that got borked when I first tried saving to google drive and the ide is still trying to use it? dunno.
cheers!
Version: 2.0.0-rc4. Mac osx 12.1 on m1 macbook pro
Date: 2022-03-02T11:35:28.317Z
CLI Version: 0.21.0 [10107d24]
I reported in the past on an issue (up to RC5) where is you click on an existing backup file using SaveAs, it actually still saves to the working file and not to what you navigated to.
A new odd behavior I found tonight is that if you use SaveAs, specify a new directory and type in a new name, it does that correctly. But then it seems to go haywire, and says it is trying to open "index.html", which just shows a spinning wheel page.
You can recover by closing the program and opening the IDE again. But this does need attention.
I can provide more context that might help if I knew where to look for it.
Hi @nandydean. Thanks for giving the Arduino IDE 2.0.0 release candidate a try, and for your report!
I suspect the bug you are experiencing is this one:
Please check the description there. If it is the same one, and you have a GitHub account, you can subscribe to that issue to get notifications of any new developments related to this subject.
If you are experiencing some other bug, please provide a detailed set of instructions I can follow to reproduce it and I will investigate further.
I recommend you to update to the latest release version 2.0.0-rc5. Because the project is under active development, the 2.0.0-rc4 version you are using is significantly outdated. Since these "release candidates" are provided for the purpose of getting feedback from interested parties in the community, it is especially important to stay up to date since feedback about outdated versions is not as valuable.