any saved file will not allow me to make changes. The dialog box says I don’t have permission to edit the file. I checked the permissions in the file system and each of the files no effect. I installed the software on a different computer that the original before selling the old computer.
If I do a SaveAs and rename the file the problem disappears until the next time I start Kimodo Edit.
Could you elaborate on this? What did you find out? Which user owns the files and are you starting Komodo as that user?
OSX has a permission system that I thought was the problem. all of the files say I have read and write permissions. the same is true of the folder containing them.
I created the files. the operating system says I own the files. Where is that information in Komodo?
I’m not sure if we display which user you’re running Komodo as. Who can create a toolbox command that runs whoami to see who you’re logged in as and confirm it’s who you think it should be.
View > Tabs & Sidebars > Toolbox
Right click in toolbox > Add > New Command
in the Command field write whoami
Click Ok
Double click the new command in the toolbox
Carey
the user name is the old one from the old computer. the difference is only a space but where can I change it to the new one
Komodo starts as the user you’re logged in as. We can’t change that for you. If whoami says you’re s different user then you’ll need to logout from that account and into the account you want to be on. That’s just how OSX works.
I created an HTML document last night from the “new file from template”. This morning it is locked saying I do not have permission to edit. Every file I have created since I got this computer is locked the next day. There is only ONE user on this computer, I am the sole user and so the only admin, No Guest Users.
I’m really not sure @PhatPhrank. Komodo doesn’t do anything special. It just writes the file to disk as the user that you’re logged in as. If it was doing something else I really think many many more people would be complaining about this issue. I would direct your focus outside of Komodo as I’m 90% sure Komodo is not the root cause here.
A couple things you should try:
create a file in Komodo, check it’s permissions in terminal, confirm that the correct user created it, stop and start Komodo, see if permissions changed
Is there a process doing something with files on your disk?
confirm you’re not starting Komodo as super user or sudo
I believe there is a program you can use to “watch” a file to see what processes touch it. Try tracking a file you’ve created from Komodo and see if anything (even Komodo) touches it when it’s not supposed to and changes it’s permissions.
You might have a bad umask which saves your files to disk with inappropriate default permissions. I know that’s a thing on Linux. Maybe it’s also on OSX since its a Unixs system under the hood.
Carey
It was not your software. The same problem appeared on a different application. The Genius Bar ran a utility that ended the problem. Thank You for all your effort!
@PhatPhrank, thanks for digging. Do you know what the problem ended up being? Or Genius Bar silently fixed errors it found?
I ask for users that might find this thread later on with the same problem