Failed to save file.....operations not permitted.... Make a backup of the contents of this file now to avoid losing data

[kiet]

What I’m trying to do

Can someone help me figure out what this means? I am not using any cloud sync services.

Things I have tried

There is a similar problem to me posted on Reddit, but I can’t seem to resolve my problem:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ObsidianMD/comments/1857ba5/failed_to_save_file_keeps_popping_up_full_error/?rdt=61052

Here is a screenshot of the error: https://www.reddit.com/r/ObsidianMD/comments/1857ba5/failed_to_save_file_keeps_popping_up_full_error/?rdt=61052

[ariehen]

I don’t see a screenshot in the second link, just a reddit page.

In any event, the error usually means that Obsidian can read-write to the vault location. What’s the vault’s path on disk? e.g. /Users/KIET/Documents/{VAULT-NAME}, etc.

[kiet]

My apologies, here is the screenshot instead

[ariehen]

Thanks.

ASUS is router company; is this account on network storage or anything like that? Or just the username you picked?

Also, I know you mentioned you don’t use a cloud sync service, but do you have OneDrive, GoogleDrive, etc., installed on the PC at all?

Sometimes those sync services watch the Documents and Desktop folders depending on their settings.

[kiet]

asus is sut the default name i picked on my laptop

I have check again and there are not google drive or one drive at all

[CarolineMathieson]

I’ve seen this error recently myself. I keep my vaults in dropbox. I took a copy of the offending note and then closed and restarted obsidian. The note was still there with all the changes. I think it’s just a temporary glitch in the new version, but i could not get rid of the error message without restarting.

[kiet]

Restarting obsidian wont help either :((

[Yurcee]

For posterity I’m writing this up.
I’ve downloaded a demo vault on an iDevice and when wanting to modify content, I’ve received this error message.

Since my device is jailbroken and the files in the demo vault were owned by root with the group mobile , the file permission issue was likely because Obsidian (which runs under the mobile user) does not have the necessary permissions to write to files owned by root .
Solution in my case involved cd-ing into folder and execution of sudo chown -R mobile:mobile .
Read and write permissions in my case stayed at 644.

From that point on, I had no issues auto-saving file content.