"Couldn't save document."

[prauz]

I recently upgraded to Leopard, from Tiger. Then I upgraded to NWP 1.4.1, from 1.2

I have a folder of Nisus docs (rtf), that I have been working on in 1.2, under Tiger, with no problems.

After the upgrade, when I try to save any of these documents, I get the following message:

Couldn't save document.
The document could not be saved because: The file
"Filename.rtf" could not be saved in folder "Folder".

I have to use Save As..., to replace the original file. Once I've done that, subsequent Saves are okay. Other files, in other folders, do not suffer from this, but I don't know how widespread the problem is.

Files are not locked, permissions are okay, Disk Utility finds no anomalies, but the Console says:

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Nisus Writer Pro[26921] NSDocument called FSPathReplaceObject() and -39 was returned.
Nisus Writer Pro[26921] *** could not write to file because Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=512 UserInfo=0x187890f0 "The file “Filename.rtf” could not be saved in folder “Folder”." 

Googling that call returns various instances in which this seems to happen on Leopard. I haven't been able to find a solution, though.
Are there any known workarounds for this? Thanks.

[martin]

That's an odd error code to see during a save, -39 is the code for end of file. I'm not sure what could be causing that, and my own googling didn't help find a solution either (though I did see a few others with your same problem in different applications). It sounds like a problem with your system or hard drive, but I'm not sure what exactly.

Can you try recreating that whole folder in the Finder? eg: make a new folder, say "Folder2", move all your RTF files there, trash the original "Folder", and then rename "Folder2" to "Folder". That might fix the problem (or at least workaround it).

[prauz]

I copied one file to a newly created folder, and the problem remains.

As I said, Disk Utility finds no issues with the drive. 'Save As' works fine, so at least I can work around it.

[Kino]

Are there any known workarounds for this.

Does this work for you?

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$doc = Document.active
if $doc == undefined
	exit
end
if Defined $doc.filePath
	Save As $doc.filePath
else
	Save As
end

Although this macro works just like Save command, it does not call :File:Save. So hopefully you can work around the problem by using it instead of Save, with a shortcut assigned to it.

[prauz]

Thanks for that macro. It's clever and I'm sure it works fine, but I'd prefer to get a warning when something is not as it should be. As it happens only once for each file I have to save, I'll just put up with the occasional "Couldn't save..." dialog.