Re: [gedit-list] problem saving

[Steve Frécinaux <nudrema gmail com>]

Samuel de Champlain wrote:
> I use Gedit 2.24.3 on Fedora 10. When saving, I often get this message:
>
> Could not create a temporary backup file while saving /home/me/path/to/file
> gedit could not backup the old copy of the file before saving the new 
> one. You can ignore this warning and save the file anyway, but if an 
> error occurs while saving, you could lose the old copy of the file. Save 
> anyway?
>
> Sometimes the problem goes away for some unknowned reason.
>
> The aforementionned file belongs to me and is member of my group. I have 
> read and write access. Selinux system default enforcing mode is disabled.

Do you have write permissions on the containing folder?
If you do, I suggest you get support from Fedora...