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Lucile
Lucile

Reputation: 93

Octave pop up message

I am running Octave 4.4.1 on MacOs Catalina 10.15.7. For some weeks I have been having this message poping up when a code is running: "

It seems that [name of script] has been modified by another application. DO you want to reload it?

I click Yes each time it pops up, but when the code is running, it just keeps coming back, and sometimes Octave becomes unresponsive although the script has finished running

All I could find on the internet were either some old posts with answers about outdated Octave versions, or very complicated stuff that I would not be able to implement.

Any one knows why this happens, and what to do about it?

thanks a lot

Upvotes: 0

Views: 414

Answers (1)

Tasos Papastylianou
Tasos Papastylianou

Reputation: 22225

This message is exclusive to the GUI version of Octave, and it comes up if you have a file open for editing in the Octave GUI Editor window, and the file's contents change due to a process unrelated to the Octave Editor.

E.g. you may also be editing the file on an external text editor at the same time? Or your script may be copying / generating a new file under the same name as a file that you've got open in the editor, effectively overwriting the now-out-of-date version that's still being displayed in the Octave Editor?

Octave gives you this warning to prevent you from 'saving' in your editor, and therefore undoing any changes that had been made by the external process in the meantime.

Upvotes: 1

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