gedit ...cannot create backup !!!

[Aram J. Agajanian]

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