Autosave of untitled buffers on Vista.

Submitted by Nick Payne on Sunday, 9 November, 2008 - 08:30

Works fine on XP, but on Vista this fails with an error messagebox: "C:\Program Files\jEdit\#Untitled-1#: Cannot save: java.io.FileNotFoundException: C:\Program Files\jEdit\#Untitled-1# (Access is denied)".

I can't see anywhere in Options to change the autosave path away from the Program Files dir. I have 4.3pre15 installed on Vista Business.

i know it's been a while since this topic was opened...

by Eddie on Sat, 09/10/2010 - 15:00

...and most people might already know it, but windows 7 has the same issue. and the reason why it has that problem is that account control thingy they invented for vista.
if you open jedit as Administrator it will work.

bye, Eddie

Work-around

by pdegregorio on Wed, 30/03/2011 - 10:04

For me (Windows 7 x64 SP 1) what works is to change the jEdit shortcut "Start in" directory from C:\Program Files\jEdit to C:\Backup\jEdit where "C:\Backup\jEdit" is the previously configured jEdit file backup location.

Running jEdit with elevated rights "as administrator" is unnecessary and to be avoided, in my opinion.

There's a bug in SourceForge on this.

Don't remember exactly, but i

by elberry on Mon, 10/11/2008 - 08:14

Don't remember exactly, but it's under the saving and backup options.

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That's only for backup files

by Nick Payne on Mon, 10/11/2008 - 09:34

And I already have that set to another dir. It doesn't affect the initial location where jEdit tries to save an untitled buffer, which defaults to the program dir.

For the moment I have disabled saving of an untitled buffer - no point having it on when it fails.

Ah. Sorry, I misread the post

by elberry on Tue, 11/11/2008 - 05:01

Ah. Sorry, I misread the post. Sorry, I saw the #[filename]# and thought backups.

Yeah, I don't see an option for the untitled buffer thing either. If this is a feature you would like to have, please create a feature request ticket in the tracker.

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