Re: [gedit-list] problem saving

[Doug McNutt <douglist macnauchtan com>]

At 12:13 +0200 4/19/09, Steve Frécinaux wrote:
> Doug McNutt wrote:
>
> >  The problem is wider than that.  On ubuntu 8 and gedit 2.24 I have
> > never been able to save a document in my home directory while
> > including the backup version with the ~ character at the end.
> > Subdirectories of $HOME work fine.
>
> Are you saying that it works if you uncheck the "make a backup file"
> checkbox but doesn't if you let it checked ?

With the button unchecked there is no error message but there is also
no saved $HOME/ScratchPad~ file. A save simply overwrites
$HOME/ScratchPad without complaint.

I keep the button checked because I like the auto save operation
which works fine in every other folder but $HOME.

If I create $HOME/ScratchPad~ using a touch command there is no
complaint and the empty file appears. If I then reopen
$HOME/ScratchPad I get the error message when I try to save.

I click OK save anyway and . . .

My previously created ScratchPad~ disappears!! It's not overwritten.
It is simply removed.

The behavior is fully reproducible and has been around for quite a
while. I have seen no other failures except for the $HOME directory.

<ftp://ftp.macnauchtan.com/Software/gedit/Archive>  is a piece of
perl drivel that I use to create backups when I want them. It works
fine when the target is my $HOME directory and it does nothing
special to handle strange preferences.

I did once experiment with LinuxSE but I'm as sure as I can be that
all elements of that have been removed.

---->  This from a while ago:

At 12:33 -0700 11/7/08, Doug McNutt wrote:
Message-Id: <p05100300c53a428d7bb4 [192 168 1 14]>
> Ubuntu Ibex, uname 2.6.27, Ubuntu version number unknown.
>
> ref 9 May 2007 posting by  Skwar before I arrived on the scene.
>
> An error message comes up and paraphrased:  "Can't save a backup
> (with a tilde on the end). Do you want to continue without it?"
>
> It happens only on files which are in the root of my home directory
> though Skwar's complaint referred to a file on a network server. It
> appears that he was never answered.
>
> If I move the file into $HOME/Documents/ or some other subdirectory
> all is normal.
>
> The problem seems to have shown up when the system was upgraded from
> Hardy Heron a week or so ago. The same file "ScratchPad" has been in
> use for a long time. Any existing "ScratchPad~" disappears even if I
> deliberately create one with a cp before opening the original in
> gedit.
>
> Permissions are all read, write, and execute-if-directory all appear
> OK to me. They're all owned by me anyway. I usually use a command
> line like "gedit ScratchPad" rather than a file browser GUI to open
> files.
>
> Is it bug report material? If so is it gedit, gnome, or Ubuntu?

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