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Asked by Karthik.N

I am new to ubuntu. I have to edit few files in the text editor and save them. But when i am adding up a new line in a existing file and save it, it shows that the content is saved. But when i close the text editor and reopen the file, the content i saved is not present. There is no duplicate copy of the file either. What do i do to save the contents in my existing file? This is quite urgent, cause i have to work on this and also i can't go to a pc having Windows Operating system everytime to save a file. Please help me out with this.

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Karthik.N

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Old_Soldier (charles.davis) said : 		#1

some quick questions.
what editor?
do you own the files? (ie did you create them and are they in your home directory? do a ls -l to see the permissons and ownership and paste the results in a reply it will help us narrow down the issue.)
do you get any error messages?

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Karthik.N (karthik-natarajan) said : 		#2

Well, the file is not created by me. I work as a Mobile game tester and one of the file need to be edited so that we can upload the game onto the Mobile. So when i try to edit the file and save it, it doesn't save. I don't get any kind of error messages too. When i save the file it shows that it is saved and when i close the file and reopen it, the content is not saved.

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Old_Soldier (charles.davis) said : 		#3

well there is a bug reported where gedit sometimes doesn't save on smbfs/cifs shares. Have you tried using another text editor such as nano from the command line?

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