Fetch Softworks

Code Is Getting Separated Randomly (7 posts)

• Started 5 months ago by Stef
• Latest reply 5 months ago from Stef

• Stef Member

  Hey Jim,

  I get this every once and awhile where I code a page perfectly and then a colleague who's not Mac based and is Windows based will edit that file the next day and then I log back in to check his work and the file is like as tall as the Empire State building.

  Any thoughts as to what can be going on here? I created a loom for you since there's no image upload.
  https://www.loom.com/share/a741d7f7791b430db391030bfd502f2f

  Thanks

  Stef

  Posted 5 months ago #

• Jim Matthews Administrator

  Hi,

  Thanks for the Loom, that's very helpful. Could you check the setting of the "Editing text files: Use text mode transfers" checkbox in the Obscure section of Preferences? Does switching that setting make a difference?

  Thanks,

  Jim Matthews
  Fetch Softworks

  Posted 5 months ago #

• Stef Member

  Hi Jim,

  Thanks. That box has been checked for like 14 years or so. Should I uncheck it?

  Posted 5 months ago #

• Jim Matthews Administrator

  I'd give it a try, and see if it helps.

  Thanks,

  Jim Matthews
  Fetch Softworks

  Posted 5 months ago #

• Stef Member

  So far so good. So if unchecking this did the trick is there a bug in Fetch or a something else?

  Thanks for the quick assist Jim

  Posted 5 months ago #

• Jim Matthews Administrator

  When the box is checked, Fetch converts line endings to the Mac standard (a single linefeed). Depending on the editors being used to edit a file, it sometimes works better to use binary mode transfers, which leave the line endings alone.

  Thanks,

  Jim Matthews
  Fetch Softworks

  Posted 5 months ago #

• Stef Member

  When this first happened eons ago. Maybe 15 years ago, you advised to have it checked and then somewhere in between I saw mode switch from Binary to Automatic and it's been that way ever since. However, I'm also on 2 different machines now. So I'm not sure my settings from my original Mac followed me over.

  I use Sublime mostly. Sometimes VSC, but not as often.

  I'll keep an eye on it. Thanks.

  Posted 5 months ago #