[SOLVED] gedit ...cannot create backup !!!

Jatin K ssh.fedora at gmail.com
Fri Apr 2 05:39:05 UTC 2010


On 04/02/2010 07:00 AM, Aram J. Agajanian wrote:
> 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
>
>    

well

I've delete all the backup files created by gedit .......  all is on the 
regular road again

I've used this[1] command to remove the backup files

[1]  find $HOME -type f -name \*~ -ok rm {} \;



Regards

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