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Eminator

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Registered: 2017-06-29

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Re: [FIXED] Kate won't open remote files upgrading to KF5

Further to this, the process for saving files remotely has changed since KDE4 and is far less useful.  Is there any way around this, to return to the previous behaviour, or is this just a change in kf5?  I now have to close Kate for changes to be uploaded, instead of the file being replaced on save.

1. Browse to FTP folder in Dolphin
2. Click to open a file in Kate - this opens the file in Kate, with the path /var/tmp/kdecache-$USER/krun/###-$FILENAME
3. Make an edit and save - file seems to be edited locally only
4. Close Kate and get a dialogue: "The file ftp://PATH has been modified. Do you want to upload the changes?"
5. Click 'upload' and then changes take effect.

I'm also getting occasional crashes in Dolphin where I have to force quit.  It may not be related, but seems to occur when I'm opening a few files in Kate and saving - this is even with local files.

Any suggestions welcome.

This issue is still persistent for me (I'm using Kubuntu, however).
I've solved it by mounting the remote folder (in my case webdav) locally
(sudo mount -t davfs https://mediacenter.gmx.net /mountpunkt or edit /etc/fstab)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 21,672

Re: [FIXED] Kate won't open remote files upgrading to KF5

Please note that this thread is over 2 years old and that these boards are for Arch Linux support only and differing package versions might as well contribute to you still seeing this issue despite it being fixed upstream.

- https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … bumping.22
- https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … .2Aonly.2A

Taking the opportunity to close this old thread.