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Since this morning, I am unable to edit a file (Connexions.txt on the image below). What could be the reason ?

Hi there,

Did you change the permissions on that file? Check this by doing a ls -l on that folder, and chmod-ing back to the right permissions if they were changed.

Conrad

Thank you for your fast reply and excellent platform!

The rights are the same as those of UUID.txt (which I can edit)...

ooh. I think you may have an extra space after the .txt if you use the mv command to fix that then you should be good.

There is indeed a space after the file name in the “File” tab.

But the file name doesn't end with a space. I renamed it, downloaded it and then uploaded it again, … but I still can’t edit it.

Ah. I took a look at your file, and I think there are some escape control characters in it, which the text editor is not able to display.

In particular, there is a bunch of Ctrl+a characters. You could for example use vim to remove them from the console. (:%s/^A//), where the ^A is generated by pressing Ctrl+a.

Thank you, the text editor now displays the file !