TextEdit won't save

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TextEdit won't save

Hi there!

Having just upgraded to Mojave from Sierra, I've gotten back into the swing of things—until around last week when TextEdit started giving me fits by choosing not to save any changes I made to any document (or even started a new one). Worse still, when I manually try to save it, it doesn't work either. It just says:

The document "(insert file name here).txt/.rtf(d)" could be not saved. Your changes will not be saved until the problem is resolved.

Well, what problem does Apple mean by that? Hopefully that resolution will be part of the next update.

P.S.: I read elsewhere this was a common error for Mountain Lion users—could this possibly be a relapse??

MacBook Air (13-inch, Early 2015), macOS Mojave (10.14)

Posted on Oct 25, 2018 8:16 PM

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Cåts

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Oct 25, 2018 8:19 PM in response to Ian16545

This should be helpful to you with TextEdit on Mojave.

Welcome to TextEdit on Mac - Apple Support

See the the table of contents.

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dialabrain

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Oct 25, 2018 8:59 PM in response to Ian16545

Ian16545 wrote:

The document "(insert file name here).txt/.rtf(d)" could be not saved. Your changes will not be saved until the problem is resolved.

FWIW, I have no problem creating or changing documents and saving them in TextEdit. Where did the (d) come from in "(insert file name here).txt/.rtf(d)"?

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dialabrain

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Oct 26, 2018 10:34 PM in response to Ian16545

First, I would have no idea where you save files, some save only to the internal drive, some the external drive, some to both, so "of course" wasn't necessary. Last, as I said I have no trouble saving any of the formats TextEdit can generate so it's not the application. There's a problem local to your Mac.

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Cåts

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Oct 25, 2018 8:21 PM in response to Ian16545

Saving textedits

Save documents in TextEdit on Mac - Apple Support

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Ian16545 Author

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Oct 25, 2018 10:54 PM in response to dialabrain

There's a big difference:

*.rtf = Rich Text File

*.rtfd = Rich Text File with Display (basically, an *.rtf with pictures)

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Ian16545 Author

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Oct 25, 2018 11:08 PM in response to Cåts

Nothing there to answer my question so far... not that I can see.

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Ian16545 Author

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Oct 26, 2018 7:51 PM in response to dialabrain

To my internal drive, of course. But it's not the files that are the problem, it's the application itself.

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dialabrain

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Oct 26, 2018 2:02 AM in response to Ian16545

Ian16545 wrote:

There's a big difference:

*.rtf = Rich Text File

*.rtfd = Rich Text File with Display (basically, an *.rtf with pictures)

Okay thanks. As you can tell, I don't work with TXT and RTFD files often. Now I can say, I have no problems creating or modifying and saving .txt, .rtf, or rtfd files. Are you saving them to an internal or external drive etc.?

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