New Document does not work

[rasmus91]

If i use the plank context menu to create a new document, the app opens and displays the attached error, and the tabs line is not displayed. If i click the 'plus' icon in the tabs, after opening a folder, nothing happens. So the only way i can type in new documents is by creating an empty file in the folder pane.

The text in the error says: 'The File "<b>(null>)</b>" can not be opened. It is an "unknown" filetype.'

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[rasmus91]

I experimented with this on my Desktop computer as well, There, i can simply not replicate the issue.

[rasmus91]

I did:

io.elementary.code from the commandline to see the errors, when i click the new tab, or do ctrl+n, i get

[FATAL 13:19:04.647999] DocumentView.vala:149: Fejl ved åbning af filen “/home/user/.local/share/io.elementary.code/unsaved/Tekstfil fra 2018-11-12 13:19:04”: Adgang nægtet Which basically means 'Error openeing access denied'

Checking out the ~/.local/share/io.elementary.code i can see that it's owned by root for some reason...

So, solved, i guess, by doing: sudo chown user ~/.local/share/io.elementary.code -R though, I'm not very fond of not knowing why this happened. Perhaps it was after i did sudo io.elementary.code somefile at some point. But I'm not certain.

[davidmhewitt]

This sounds like a duplicate of #202 then.

It wouldn't have been possible for that folder to become owned as root without something running as root taking ownership of it (which was more than likely Code itself).