Eclipse Liferay IDE erases all changes to js files. Why?

[Gerardo Flores Barrie, modificado 9 Anos atrás.]

Hi, team. I'm having a strange problem with the Liferay IDE editor. I can't edit any of my javascript files in the diffs folder. Whenever I make a change and run any ant task like deploy or all, etc. The IDE refreshes the file and undoes any changes I made. This is happening to me only with the js files in the js folder of the theme I'm building. I'm quite desperate and annoyed now, has somebody had this or similar problem before?

Thanks in advance.

[David H Nebinger, modificado 9 Anos atrás.]

Just to verify, you are editing only the files inside of the diffs folder, right? Any files outside of the diffs file will be overwritten during builds.

[Gerardo Flores Barrie, modificado 9 Anos atrás.]

Hi, David and thanks for your reply. Yes, the js files I'm editing are all in the diffs folder, so I don't see what the problem is.
Regards

[Olaf Kock, modificado 9 Anos atrás.]

Make extra extra extra sure that you're indeed working on the files in your docroot/_diffs folder. Check the file's properties for their location, so that you don't get tricked by the tree-view of eclipse's project editor. The build process copies the original (_styled and _unstyled base theme's) files into your docroot/js etc. and then copies docroot/_diffs/js/* on top of it.

I've lost numerous edits because I didn't pay attention to those details. Sometimes it was just both files being opened at the same time. You won't see builds in the logs, IDE does that under the hood and just overwrites your target directory (docroot/js etc) silently