you might want to check if for some reason the folders or files you are working on have changed owner or privileges in the OS. I remember having an issue like this once when trying to work on folder which was not owned by my user.
On Wed, Nov 26, 2025 at 5:59 PM adam johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > The saving and quitting issues could be caused by your window manager. > I get this same issue when I accidentally hit ctrl-r instead of > ctrl-4/5, it tries to raise the pd window but does not quite succeed > leaving confusion between pd's core and the Tk gui as to what actually > has focus. Clicking on the pd window gets things back to working > properly. From what I remember and could tell, it is only an issue in > non-compliant WMs (so not a pd bug), with tiling WMs being the worst > offenders. > > On Wed, Nov 26, 2025 at 2:06 PM Jim Ruxton <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I am using Pd 0.56.0 (Linux/amd64 - single precision) version of Pure > Data on Ubuntu 24.04 and having a strange issue I'm having trouble tracking > down. Wondering if anyone has come across this issue and found a solution. > I have a patch that I am working on and after working on it for a while I > can no longer save it . If I open that patch, make a quick change and save > it, that works fine. After editing it for a while doing simple things like > adding comments I can go to the file menu and save it, though it appears to > work it doesn't actually save the file. The way I know it hasn't saved the > file is if I then go to close the file , the prompt comes up asking if I > want to save the file even though I just did save it. Also at that point I > can't quit the program. It again asks if I want to save the program and I > say yes but it doesn't quit. I then quit it in the console with cntrl c. > And when reopening see that it hasn't saved my changes. The patch is > working fine before and after I try to save and close it. Except there is a > strange anomaly which is that I am playing short audio wav files using Else > player and each time it goes to play the file there is a message in the > console saying it can't find the file. Even though it plays the file it > says it can't find. I don't have other instances of PD open or other panels > that would prevent me from closing PD. It is a very strange issue I've > never seen but it's driving me a bit bonkers as it appears pretty random > when it decides it can no longer be saved. Any thoughts on what could be > causing this strangeness? > > --- > > [email protected] - the Pure Data mailinglist > > > https://lists.iem.at/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/RXVNJHBM2OV36WMQKS4QGXE4KHM2BRTD/ > > > > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] mailing list > > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> https://lists.iem.at/ > > --- > [email protected] - the Pure Data mailinglist > > https://lists.iem.at/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/EC7XHVLSFQUGEAVK4OR4WB72RA7JMT2B/ > > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> https://lists.iem.at/ -- José Rafael Subía Valdez www.jrsv.net *"...I am an Anarchist! Wherefore I will* *Not rule, and also ruled I will not be!"* - John Henry Mackay -
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