The latest version of Edge Code has file watchers also, so you shouldn't be seeing problem #1. A couple questions:
- What version of Edge Code are you using? (See the About window).
- What OS are you on?
- Where is your project folder located? Is it on a network share by any chance? Or does your project contain any symlinks?
- Do you have any extensions installed? If so, please try temporarily disabling them (choose Help > Show Extensions Folder, rename the 'user' folder to something else, then restart Edge Code).
- Can you check whether Live Preview works properly on your computer? You can test this with the simple Getting Started project that comes with Edge Code, if your current project isn't set up for it. (I know this seems unrelated, but it will tell us whether there's a more general problem in the infrastructure that both these features share).
Hopefully that's enough to help us get to the bottom of it -- thanks!
- Peter