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Akash Gandhi
Akash Gandhi

Reputation: 71

How to remove "file is not writable" in PyCharm?

For me, an Open project has so many other projects (all git repositories).

I have multiple git repositories in one Folder And I have open that Folder as Project. So one project has at least 10 subprojects (all git repositories).

My problem inside one repository (subproject), I can't able to edit some files. Pycharm gives popup error saying "File is not writable". I can not find a proper solution to this problem.

In my search I found

1) Checked "Show 'Clear read-only status' Dialog" in Preferences/Version Control/Confirmation

2) Opening Pycharm with root privillages. But that didn't work for me.

3) Run following commonds (I guess it for windows and appear to not work for me)

attrib -r +s C:\WorkingDir

attrib -r +s C:\WorkingDir\*

attrib -r c:\folder\*.* /s /d

4) Obviously the lock icon on the bottom. That is unclickable for me for Read-only Files.

The interesting fact is If I open the same subproject in a different window (not with other subprojects) that I can edit it. But It makes my life difficult because I have to go back and forth. I like to open all my project together. And also because PyCharm doesn't support the opening project on different Tabs.

My PyCharm version is 2017.1.4 (Professional) And Mac Os version is 10.12.4

How will I make those files editable?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3230

Answers (1)

tomoc4
tomoc4

Reputation: 358

If you're using Mac, open terminal and write the following:

sudo chmod a+w /home/somefolder/file.py

enter your password and then check your editor. You will be able to edit the file then.

Upvotes: 2

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