For the first time today, I am seeing "leonine" behavior, even though I skipped
from Snow Leopard directly to Mountain Lion.
I launched TextEdit in order to create some brand new text. I saved the text
to the Desktop, where it became an .rtf file.
From that point on, every time I typed a single new character into the file, I
immediately got:
You don’t have permission to write to the folder that the file “radio
blurb.rtf” is in.
Your changes will not be saved until the problem is resolved.
Yet, if I type command-S to save the file, everything saves easy-squeezy. Of
course, next character I type triggers the message anew.
Clearly, this is "auto-save"-ish behavior. But it puzzles the hell out of me.
First of all. I'm saving to my own Desktop. Now, I have dealt with many
customers who had migrated their files from older machines in a back-assward
fashion, such that they had to keep authenticating to do things to their own
Desktop. Trust me, I'm not one of 'em. I have RW by name to my Desktop, RW by
name to the file, and I have always been 501. So the "no permission" claim is
a total lie.
Then I thought, maybe RTF is saved as a bundle, and there's something wrong
with accesses inside the bundle. But no, that's RTFD -- RTF is just a plain
old text file, like TXT, just with fancier contents.
Finally, I checked the auto-save lore. Turns out I had "Ask to keep changes
when closing documents” unchecked (which means auto-save), so I unchecked it.
It didn't make a bit of difference. (Maybe TextEdit only checks that value at
launch time -- I didn't relaunch TextEdit.) Either way, it doesn't excuse the
whole "no permissions" behavior.
What bothers me is that this is not the first time since I installed ML that I
sat down to create brand new text in TextEdit and saved it to my Desktop, but
it's the first time I have ever had this happen. :-(
The whole "no permissions" gig is getting tiring anyway. For years, I have had
two text files, which reside permanently in my Dock, set to open up at login.
Since I installed ML, I get two messages at login about "You don't have
permission to open these files." Which is again a lie, because when I click on
them, they open right up.
Is this stuff a known ML bug or something?
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