Bless cannot save edited files

[Fabrizio Gennari]

More often than not, when a file is opened in Bless, edited and then saved, a pop-up windows says "Error saving file <name>" "There is not enough space on the device to save file '<tmp file name>'.bless". The HD has several gigs free and no other applications complain.

[Jo Jaeyoung (jaeyoungse)]

I found this only happen when the size of the file has changed. Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit.

[Christian Johnson (chris2422)]

The problem is bless doesn't have a value for the temp directory, and wont let it be change. Found a work around. Edit the file ~/.config/bless/preferences.xml, change the line <pref name="ByteBuffer.TempDir" /> to <pref name="ByteBuffer.TempDir">[somedir]</pref> replace [somedir] with desired location to temp folder. Note: directory path has to be absolute.

[scottku (scottku)]

There is a one-line patch that apparently fixes the problem available at the following link. I haven't tried the patch, however.
http://gna.org/bugs/?14878

[kanos (gkanos)]

How do you apply this patch?

[Jeffery Wilkins (djcanadianjeff)]

please patch this its getting annoying

[Jeffery Wilkins (djcanadianjeff)]

please please hello

[Fabrizio Gennari (fabrizio-ge)]

Christian Johnson's workaround works for me, most probably it will work for you, please try that rather than expecting an unmaintained project to be patched

[synjystyc (rhettrick0)]

Apparently no special "workaround" is necessary. The only thing I had to do to solve the issue was open "preferences" under the "Edit" menu and change one simple entry. Where it says "Temporary Directory". Create a directory path for that field and the problem should be resolved (it was for me).

[Jeffery Wilkins (djcanadianjeff)]

what I am seeing is if you change anything in settings close and open bless the settings are not getting saved

[Sameera Wijayasiri (sameermw)]

cannot save edited file and changes in settings also not saving.
ubuntu 16.04 x64 kernel 4.6.2-040602-generic.

[Thompson Dawes (richardsidler)]

Yes... #2, mine installed with no path to temp.

[Tyler Collier (tylercollier)]

I followed synjystyc's advice from 2015-12-27. At first I typed in the temp directory path by hand like ~/tmp/bless, and when I'd press save, it'd crash the app. Changing it to /home/tylercollier/tmp/bless worked. Thanks!