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Bug 607675 - gedit complains about unable to save backup even if backups are disabled
gedit complains about unable to save backup even if backups are disabled
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gedit
Classification: Applications
Component: general
2.29.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Gedit maintainers
Gedit maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-01-21 16:32 UTC by Oliver Joos
Modified: 2010-03-14 02:38 UTC
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Description Oliver Joos 2010-01-21 16:32:52 UTC 
Typically this occurs if a file shall be writable by multiple users and therefore is -rw-rw-rw- but the directory is -rw-r--r--. A usecase is a ~/mynotes.txt that has to be editable from a Live-CD and your normal account.

To reproduce:
 1 Disable backups in gedit prefs
 2 $ sudo touch /test.txt
 3 $ sudo chmod a+rw /test.txt
 4 $ gedit /test.txt   # no sudo here!
 5 Change and save test.txt

I found this bug in gedit 2.29.4.
Comment 1 Fabio Durán Verdugo 2010-01-21 17:29:03 UTC 
Thanks for the report Oliver, i'm getting the same behavior here, confirming.
Comment 2 Oliver Joos 2010-03-14 02:38:26 UTC 
Solved in 2.29.92.1.

But now gedit NEVER complains if unable to save backups, even if backups are enabled! I can live with this, particularly since backups are now DISABLED by default. Feel free to open a new bug if you don't agree.