Re: Issue Saving a Patch

you might want to check if for some reason the folders or files you are
working on have changed owner or privileges in the OS. I remember having an
issue like this once when trying to work on folder which was not owned by
my user.

On Wed, Nov 26, 2025 at 5:59 PM adam johnson <[email protected]> wrote:

> The saving and quitting issues could be caused by your window manager.
> I get this same issue when I accidentally hit ctrl-r  instead of
> ctrl-4/5, it tries to raise the pd window but does not quite succeed
> leaving confusion between pd's core and the Tk gui as to what actually
> has focus. Clicking on the pd window gets things back to working
> properly. From what I remember and could tell, it is only an issue in
> non-compliant WMs (so not a pd bug), with tiling WMs being the worst
> offenders.
>
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2025 at 2:06 PM Jim Ruxton <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > I am using Pd 0.56.0 (Linux/amd64 - single precision) version of Pure
> Data on Ubuntu 24.04 and having a strange issue I'm having trouble tracking
> down. Wondering if anyone has come across this issue and found a solution.
> I have a patch that I am working on and after working on it for a while I
> can no longer save it . If I open that patch, make a quick change and save
> it, that works fine. After editing it for a while doing simple things like
> adding comments I can go to the file menu and save it, though it appears to
> work it doesn't actually save the file. The way I know it hasn't saved the
> file is if I then go to close the file , the prompt comes up asking if I
> want to save the file even though I just did save it. Also at that point I
> can't quit the program. It again asks if I want to save the program and I
> say yes but it doesn't quit. I then quit it in the console with cntrl c.
> And when reopening see that it hasn't saved my changes. The patch is
> working fine before and after I try to save and close it. Except there is a
> strange anomaly which is that I am playing short audio wav files using Else
> player and each time it goes to play the file there is a message in the
> console saying it can't find the file. Even though it plays the file it
> says it can't find. I don't have other instances of PD open or other panels
> that would prevent me from closing PD. It is a very strange issue I've
> never seen but it's driving me a bit bonkers as it appears pretty random
> when it decides it can no longer be saved. Any thoughts on what could be
> causing this strangeness?
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