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Mark Aldrich
Mark Aldrich

Reputation: 26

Intellij IDEA 14.1.2 refuses to save file

I have a line of code in a class that reads:

g.setColor(Color.BLACK);

I changed it to g.setColor(Color.WHITE); but Intellij saves it as g.setColor(Color.BLACK);.

I have tried invalidating the cache in Intellij and restarting, and that has not fixed the problem.

I tried closing Intellij and editing the file in Notepad++. When I opened Intellij, it was still the old code, and Notepad++ told me that another program had modified the document. When I say yes to reload the document, it changes back to the old code.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 70

Answers (1)

Dany Ellement
Dany Ellement

Reputation: 226

That sound like a bug to me, kill any intelliJ instances and reopen it again to see if it solve the issue, if not, close intelliJ again and try to edit it with notepad++, if it tell you the same things "that another program had modified the document" that mean there is a process with that file open that keep writing to it.

Multiple Processes writing to the same file resolution: (Also for file already opened by another program issue)

You can use Resources Monitor of the Task Manager -> Performance tab and check for any associated handles with that file name you could use Process Monitor as well to achieve the same result: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb896645.aspx and kill the process that keep writing to it.

Dany

Upvotes: 1

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