title: Sharepoint doing an automatic discard checkout - losing changes!
body: <p>Scenario:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li><p>Through web interface, I check out and edit a file.</p></li>
  <li><p>I exit my (non-office) application.  My application asks if I wish to check in, and I reply no.  Document with my changes remains checked out, present in my SharePoint Drafts folder, and present in the registry under HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\Common\Offline\Files</p></li>
  <li><p>I go back to the web interface, click the name of the file, am prompted to view the file. I click "OK" and, to my horror, an automatic discard of the checkout is performed:
  a. Registry entry deleted
  b. File (WITH MY PRECIOUS CHANGES) is unceremoniously deleted</p></li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>What I would have <em>hoped</em> is that a redirect would have happened to launch my application with the modified draft in the SharePoint Drafts folder.  </p>
  
  <p>Does anyone know how to get SharePoint to perform this?</p>
  
  <p>UPDATE:  I discovered that if I upload the file (without checking it in) through SharePoint web services, SharePoint no longer performs this "discard checkout" at the next read attempt by the same user.</p>