Permission denied to write save.data

Bug #786608 reported by Steven Sproat
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Whyteboard
Fix Committed
High
Steven Sproat

Bug Description

Whyteboard 0.41.1
Operating System: Windows NT 6.1 (build 7600)
Screen Resolution: 1366x768
Python Version: 2.6.4 (r264:75708, Oct 26 2009, 08:23:19) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)]
wxPython Version: 2.8.10.1 (msw-unicode)
wxPython Info: (__WXMSW__, wxMSW, unicode, wx-assertions-on, SWIG-1.3.29)
Python Encoding: Default=ascii File=mbcs
wxPython Encoding: utf-8
System Architecture: 32bit x86
Byte order: little
Frozen: windows_exe

 File \"whyteboard\\gui\\frame.pyo\", line 250, in on_save
 File \"whyteboard\\gui\\frame.pyo\", line 274, in on_save_as
 File \"whyteboard\\gui\\frame.pyo\", line 252, in on_save
 File \"whyteboard\\misc\\utility.pyo\", line 152, in save_file
 File \"whyteboard\\misc\\utility.pyo\", line 173, in write_save_file
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: \'save.data\'

Tags: crash save
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Steven Sproat (sproaty) wrote :

This is strange, as save.data is being written to a file in the user's home directory.

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Steven Sproat (sproaty) wrote :

Hmm:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5285181/io-error-while-storing-data-in-pickle

"Well i assigned the absolute path & it worked !"

I'll give that a shot.

Steven Sproat (sproaty)
Changed in whyteboard:
status: Confirmed → In Progress
Steven Sproat (sproaty)
Changed in whyteboard:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
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Steven Sproat (sproaty) wrote :

need to check this is fixed!

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