Publisher 1.9.0: Over-enthusiastic at auto update of placed media

[mattspace]

Hi,

Not sure if this is a bug, or just a problematic implementation.

The situation - I have a 230page+ document, every page is a separate placed pdf file. Those pdfs are produced in a different application. I want to make a univeral update, that requires replacing every pdf from the other application. So, in the other application, I run the script that saves out every page as separate files - it overwrites the old pages.

Publisher seems to be over-enthusiastic as watching for changes for files, and comes up with a modal error for every file, as "unsupported file types", I suspect because it's attempting to read them before the other app has finished writing them.

As well, it puts up a notification for every changed file:

I ended up having to force-quit the application to get out of this.

For a single page update, it will throw up this unsupported file type error approximately 3 times in succession once the new file is written out in the other application.

[Pauls]

I've logged the file type error as that seems incorrect.

[Pauls]

I cant replicate the multiple toast messages in our newer releases - is it still a problem for you ?

[walt.farrell]

12 minutes ago, Pauls said:

I cant replicate the multiple toast messages in our newer releases

I can still get multiples in 1.10.0.1098 on Windows, Paul. However, when doing a bulk replacement of 5 files I only got 2 toast messages: