App icons move outside fence after use

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Hi, I'm so far still using the trial version of Fences and it's great so I will certainly buy. Much better than the free "Fences" equivalents. But I just have one problem which I can't find a solution to on the forum. I use LibreOffice and sometimes after I have opened, made a change and then closed a LibreOffice file from a Fence, the file icon appears outside the fence on the Desktop rather than staying inside the fence. This usually seems to happen if I have saved a change to the LibreOffice file but not always if I just view the file without saving any change. It's a bit annoying having to drag the files back in their fence all the time. Has anyone come across this and have any idea what the problem is please?

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

Hello,
Sorry to hear you are having issues. But, this behavior is similar to MS office files. You can try this guide to solve your problem : https://forums.stardock.com/501922/page/1/#3791649

Thanks
Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant.

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Thanks Basj. LibreOffice creates "lock files" to avoid them being used by two users at once. I presume this causes a similar problem to Fences as the "temp" files do in MSO. I switched off the "lock file" facility in LibreOffice but that didn't solve the problem. So it must be that, as with MSO, when a LibreOffice document is opened and written to, Fences sees it as a new file added to the Desktop. Couldn't this be fixed by one of Stardock's super programmers? Anyway I have created a Folder Portal as suggested and this seems to have solved the problem.

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