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? -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http://macsrwe.com _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk