quarto preview and render simultaneously issues

[iot49]

Description

When running quarto preview and quarto render simultaneously in the same project (and to different output folders), I occasionally get error messages about files not found. The problem does not occur when only one or the other is running.

I believe it is since both processes temporarily write files to the project folder and later copy them, resulting in a race condition if the same document is rendered by both processes.

How can I avoid this problem (without stopping preview when I do a render) or having two copies of the project?

(In case you are wondering: I am running quarto in a website which both serves the rendered (static) site, and the preview server (for authoring)).

[mcanouil]

You can't do that in the same place.

Maybe in the future (no timetable):

• Epic: Execution Planner #6518

[iot49]

Thanks for the reply. I expected this.

It is unfortunate that quarto writes to the source (project) rather than a temporary folder.