can't save files

[Jimmy Wu]

Thank you
The save function works now :-)

Jimmy

On 7/20/07, Joel Goguen <jtgoguen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> As your admin user, open Configuration Editor (Applications -> System
> Tools -> Configuration Editor or the command gconf-editor if that's
> not there) and browse to:
> /desktop/gnome/lockdown/
> Uncheck everything in there, log out, and log in again.  Can you save
> in GEdit now?
>
> On 7/20/07, Jimmy Wu <jimmywu013 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > This is a continuation of a previous problem that never really got
> solved
> > The situation is:
> > I have Ubuntu 7.04, with two users - jimmywu (me) with admin rights, and
> > guest (an extra that I created) with admin rights disabled
> > The strange thing is that while logged on as jimmywu, some of my
> > applications (like gedit and evince pdf viewer) won't let me save (not
> even
> > newly created files) - the save option is just grayed out, while others,
> > (like all the applications in the Open Office suite as well as AbiWord),
> > will let me save files.
> > Meanwhile, the guest account has no problems of this kind at all.  All
> the
> > rwx options are configured properly for each user's respective home
> > directories, so I don't think that's the problem.  Is there some kind of
> > hidden/obscure configuration file that might be messed up?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Jimmy
> >
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