Using Kate text editor to write new .csv and can't save file

I copied a bunch of comma-separated data from the web and pasted to a blank doc in Kate, the text editor. I select the "save as..." and for the name I type "flights.csv" for the new file and I get the following error window message:

The document could not be saved, as it was not possible to write to /home/deret/Documents/flight.csv Check that you have write access to this file or that enough disk space is available.

I tried again without .csv and got the same error.

I am working in my own directory. What do I need to do to write Kate output to files in my /home?

I don't know whether this helps and I have little experience with *.csv files other than with programs that natively export/import to *.csv, but I opened Kate and went to Tools-->Highlighting, and csv was not one of the choices.

A web search for kate linux csv file turned up nothing helpful.

As a shot in the dark, did you try saving it with a *.txt extension?

Usually I have in a session into Kate about 2000 files open. All saving all the way.

I think that you either you have problems with the permissions to that specific folder, either you have lines too long, as too many characters in a single line.

There is a limit, in my settings it is 16384 chars, and over it, the file is open read-only and it cannot be modified or saved.

Long story short, this is not a limitation specific to Kate, all text editors have a similar one, excluding the binary editors.

Originally Posted by frankbell I don't know whether this helps and I have little experience with *.csv files other than with programs that natively export/import to *.csv, but I opened Kate and went to Tools-->Highlighting, and csv was not one of the choices. A web search for kate linux csv file turned up nothing helpful. As a shot in the dark, did you try saving it with a *.txt extension?

Kate can work with almost any file type, .CSV, .PHP, .CPP, etc. It is basically something like a Kdevelop Lite, and to be honest, my favorite editor.

I made a different file and saved it as .txt and without an extension. Still same error. The file only had "this is a practice file" in it. I'm guessing the problem is a permissions thing. What would I have to change on Kate to have permissions to write to my own /home folder?

@deretsigernu

Strange, there is no need to make configurations for. And I cannot confirm your issue, here Kate works like a Hero.

You are pretty sure that that folder is writable, or your /home partition, if you use one, is not mounted read-only?

Could happen on-fly this thing, if there are heavy errors on filesystem.

I tried to copy a file that was in a different folder through Dolphin and it wouldn't work. Then in the terminal I used

mv file /home/deret/Documents

and I got a permissions error. I checked this:

bash-4.2$ ls -la /home/deret/Documents
total 8
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  root  4096 Sep 23 11:49 .
drwx------ 26 deret deret 4096 Oct  4 20:38 ..

I'm not sure, but looks right, isn't it?

Your /home/deret/Documents is owned by root. Of course that you have files permission errors!

Long story short: NEVER play as root in the users homes, and if you do it, you should chown according your interventions. IF you do not do that, shit happens.

hmm... I don't remember doing anything like that. There are other directories in /home/deret and I don't have problems with them. --okay, I do remember where I had moved some files around and probably used mkdir as root and didn't think about the fallout. So anyway, now I need to fix it. Thanks for the help!