Re: TRAMP corrupting files

[Will Willis]

On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Ian Eure <ian@digg.com> wrote:
> On May 7, 2009, at 10:44 PM, Will Willis wrote:
>
>> I'm using Tramp from my Mac to edit remote files. Twice in the last
>> few days I've experienced Tramp corrupting my files.
>>
>> The first corruption happened mid way through a PHP file, looking like
>> this:
>>
>> ...
>> <option value="C"<?=$uresult['store_cluster']=="C"?"
>> selected":""?>>Cluster C</option>
>>                          <opv˷⌀   “䛆需戀܀㜀䜀阀
>>
>> I think the characters might have been encoded above. What I see in
>> emacs is this
>>
>> ...
>> <option value="C"<?=$uresult['store_cluster']=="C"?"
>> selected":""?>>Cluster C</option>
>>                          <opv\367^B#\340\240\220\223\306...
>>
>> This corruption goes on for 35,202 characters (all on one line) then
>> the file ends.
>>
>>
>> The second time I had a file get corrupted, interestingly also in a
>> PHP file inside of a <select> option group, There were not funky
>> characters, just a few dozen lines of missing from my file.
>>
>> It's really starting to scare me as I'm not sure I can trust this
>> method of remote file editing... My hosting company was able to assist
>> me once in recovering a backup... I'd have for this to happen again..
>>
>> Is TRAMP known to do this sort of thing?
>>
> For what it's worth, I live and breathe Tramp. The vast majority of my
> editing happens remotely via tramp, and I have _never_ experienced anything
> like what you have. Which is not to say it can never happen, but I don't
> think it should in the normal course of events.
>
> I'm currently using CVS snapshots of Carbon Emacs 23 on two Macs. Before
> that, I was using Aquamacs, and XEmacs 20/21 on Debian before that. The
> remote hosts are a mix of Lenny and Etch Debian boxes. I've used the rsync
> and ssh Tramp methods.
>
>  - Ian

I'm going to start using rsync to see if that helps.. I wish I were
making this up. I've had files corrupt on me as many as 3 times in one
night. I'd love to upgrade to Carbon Emacs 23, but I'm still on OS X
10.4, holding out for snow leopard.

-Will