Problems Saving an EAP file

[ronc1974]

I was working in an EAP file saving my diagrams frequently and my system hung with EA still open.  To my horror, all my changes including diagram changes, addition of elements etc. were all gone!  After looking at the EAP file, I noticed that in the file explorer for that file, the modified date does not change until you actually close the EAP file.  My question is, what exactly the purpose of my saving if nothing is being written to disk?  How can I make the EAP file be written to disk while still having it open and actively working on it?

[thomaskilian]

It usually saves all changes immediately - except for diagram changes. EAP = MS Access database. I have never experienced any data loss. So if you can repro that, send a bug report!

[ronc1974]

Ok, I just did some experimenting.  The EAP file that I work with is one that is on a network share in my office.  I decided to  use the windows feature for "making files available offline" for this folder.  I think this is what's screwing it up.  I took the same file, put it on my desktop, did some small changes and noticed the file being modified real time whereas the one that has this offline feature applied to it doesn't save until I close it down.  I'm not sure if you can call this a bug or just a caveat for everyone.

[thomaskilian]

Yep. Network share for MS Access is a no-no. Look at either the Replication feature of EA (it's basically MS Access Replication) or XMI ex/import (resp. version control).