[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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