I think this is a very weird intentional way of how things work. Let me first state that I really like Seafile and that I applaud all your efforts until date to get where you are now. I mean it,.And now the rant
As soon as I open the document in OnlyOffice I can work on it, users can join me, all working fine. I hit save, it saves (somewere)
Now, when I CLOSE THE TAB (not earlier) the file is written to the seafile storage, WHAT THE… ???
This must be the most confusing feature of Seafile / OnlyOffice, I mean, I’m pretty technical, can figure stuff out, but oh boy, when I hit [Save] and it doesn’t SAVE, what the hell are my customers supposed to think?
Better yet, it only writes the file to the storage as soon as all open tabs of the file are closed by everybody, until then, nothing. I have no clue what to do with this behavior, is this intended? If so, there should be a message somewhere stating this behavior:
Something like this:
Dear user,
The file will not be saved to your file storage when you hit save, even though it shows at the bottom “All changes saved”. The file will only be saved to your file storage as soon as you close this tab, even though it will still take a while before this happens, cause we are working hard in the background to do something before actually saving it.
More importantly, if you work together on the same document with someone else, please ask them politely to close the file tab, or your file will never be saved to your file storage.
Kind regards,
The we-like-to-not-save-files-when-you-hit-save Team
I have never seen a program user interface so confusing!