POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Stupid fatfingers : Re: Stupid fatfingers Server Time
27 Sep 2024 03:34:10 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Stupid fatfingers  
From: Cousin Ricky
Date: 27 Aug 2024 22:05:09
Message: <66ce85d5$1@news.povray.org>
On 2024-08-27 18:52 (-4), William F Pokorny wrote:
> 
> On Linux / Unix at least, the reality is even after the fat finger
> render phase starts and opens the output file, the prior image file will
> exist until the file handle is closed at the end of the render phase(**).
> 
> Let the accidental re-render run (or better pause it) until you've
> copied / moved the existing image file somewhere safe - then abort the
> fat finger render.

This has not been my experience.  My observation is that the image file
disappears at the end of the parse phase of the new render.


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