2

Gedit can't save files. My Gedit has greyed out the 'Save' button, and only offers to 'Close without saving'. Other programs saves the same files without any problems and i seem to have enough rights. This happends with files all my home folder, even on a usb drive. With 'gksudo gedit' it works. But i have the permission for the file, and i can save the file if i open it with Libre office write instead, only gedit will not. If i make a test file on my desktop, that have the permission read and write, for Me, my group and others. I open it with gedit, i cannot save it. open it with libre office i can save it. with 'sudo gedit' it does not work, but with 'gksudo gedit' i can save it. i must have broken something in gedit?

The only thing i have been messing with are changing the 'Run', 'Display or 'Ask' option for texts files in Nautilus, but i set it back. I also reinstalled gedit.

I can't figure out what to do, please help.

7ochem
  • 191
mote
  • 325
  • 2
    Make sure the directory gedit wants to save a file is owned by you and not by root. You probably changed the default save location to something owned by root by using sudo or gksudo... – Rinzwind Jan 25 '15 at 08:33
  • But, if i use 'LO Writer' in stead, i don't have any problems. And it, not only one directory, it everywhere, desktop, homefolder ext. drives. The problem are one with gedit. – mote Jan 25 '15 at 14:29
  • 1
    Could you do a gsettings list-recursively | grep --ignore-case gedit and copy-paste the output to http://paste.ubuntu.com and provide a link back here and then drop a comment @Fabby? – Fabby Jan 27 '15 at 19:49
  • @Fabby I was installing ecryptfs-utils and did a lot in a SU terminal. Another user that tried to help me at the forums, thinks that i made problems in dbus. Unfortunately it's above my knowledge. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2262774

    Here are the pastebin of bith gedit and eog. All other apps and users work fine. http://paste.ubuntu.com/9912966/

     – mote Jan 28 '15 at 07:55
  • 1
    Sorry, then I cannot help you. If I were you, I'd reinstall and start taking system backups as you're definitely user type 4! ;-( – Fabby Jan 28 '15 at 10:19
  • @fabby, I was almost about to. The weird thing is that it's the only user affected. Other user work perfectly. – mote Jan 28 '15 at 15:05
  • I've got a solution for you then! :-) (And sorry for not asking first: Do you have this in the guest session as well???) – Fabby Jan 28 '15 at 15:06

1 Answers1

2

Use the following steps to circumvent the issue: (this is a workaround, not a solution)

  • create a new user (E.g. mote2 for original user mote)
  • with the same groups as the other user (if you need details on that, leave a comment)

Now:

  1. open the file manager
  2. browse to the /home/mote directory
  3. copy (not move!) all the files from Downloads to /home/mote2/Downloads
  4. check you did a good job.
  5. Now delete /home/mote/Downloads
  6. Go back to step 3 and repeat for Documents, Videos, ...
  7. In a terminal type the following command: deluser mote --remove-home

Done!

Why? As you have seriously messed up some problems with the current's user profile, some setting somewhere in one of the .config files is causing a problem. As we can't solve this problem in a reasonable amount of time, it's best to just leave that profile behind and starting afresh!

Fabby
  • 34,259
  • 1
    Thanks, that was just the solution i had figured out my self. You get all the stars and upvotes i have. ;-) Thanks – mote Jan 29 '15 at 10:53
  • 1
    +1 This also works for problem files in Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) on my NTFS partition /mnt/e which is E:\ within windows. I've been struggling for a couple of hours trying various things but cp /mnt/e/bin/* /mnt/e/bin2/ was an easy fix! – WinEunuuchs2Unix Mar 24 '19 at 21:06
  • @WinEunuuchs2Unix Yup: it's a universal solution independent of OS. – Fabby Mar 24 '19 at 22:22