gedit ...cannot create backup !!!
Aram J. Agajanian
agajan at pobox.com
Fri Apr 2 01:30:31 UTC 2010
On Thu, 01 Apr 2010 10:38:23 +0530
Jatin K <ssh.fedora at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all
>
> suddenly I'm getting this error whenever I try to edit a text file
> and click save button
>
> " Could not create a backup file while saving /path/to/file.txt"
> 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 ?"
>
>
> yesterday, everything was ok.. and this morning I'm getting this
>
> whats wrong with gedit ?? can anyone help me ?
>
>
> Regards
>
I've seen this error message from gedit when trying to save on network
filesystems where the uids are not mapped. When using sshfs, the
following option can help:
-o idmap=user
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