Cannot open source file

[gostal]

CodeLite version 3.5.5377
Downloaded bare bones as I already had MinGW installed
Windows 7 64 bit

My system is setup such that the home directory (Libraries/Documents) is on a network server with a local and synchronized copy on the computer harddrive so that I can access the files also when the computer is not connected to the server. If I try to setup a workspace and a project in the home directory then whatever source file there is according to CodeLite's file browser cannot be opened in the editor. If on the other hand I have a workspace and project setup locally (on the computer harddrive) then there is no problem. It appears that CodeLite cannot fully cope with a network home directory. Is there a known workaround to this problem or is there some magic setting I have overlooked?

[eranif]

This was asked many times in the forum:

The workspace && projects && sources *MUST* be on the same drive
This is because all paths are kept relative.


There is no workaround for this for many reason (search the forum)
Eran

[gostal]

Thank you! You just handed me the solution. If I skip using the Win 7 home directory and use instead the complete network adress it seems to do what I want as the network adress is available even if I'm not online due to the synchronized local copy of the network folder.

As a sidenote I was a bit startled when I first tried this as most of the files opened blank. It turned out that CodeLite was set to use utf-8 and only the ones that were modified and saved showed up correctly. The ones that opened blank were still coded in iso-8859-1. I then converted all the relevant files to utf-8 using notepad++ and no more blank files!